Jan de Hartog

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Jan de Hartog


Born
in Haarlem, Netherlands
April 22, 1914

Died
September 22, 2002

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Jan de Hartog (1914 – 2002) was a Dutch playwright, novelist and occasional social critic who moved to the United States in the early 1960s and became a Quaker. From then on he wrote in English.
At the beginning of his career he wrote five detective novels about the adventures of Commissioner Wiebe Poesiat and inspector Gregor Boyarski at the metropolitan harbor police under the pseudonym F.R. Eckmar

Johannes (Jan) de Hartog was een Nederlandse schrijver van romans, toneelstukken en filmscenario's, vooral gekend om zijn romans over de scheepvaart.
In het begin van zijn carrière schreef hij, onder het pseudoniem F.R. Eckmar, ook een vijftal detectieveromans over de avonturen van commissaris Wiebe Poesiat en inspecteur Gregor Boyarski bij de hoo
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The Little Ark

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The Commodore

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The Hospital

3.79 avg rating — 62 ratings — published 1963 — 7 editions
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“Do not commit the error
so common among the young
of assuming that if you cannot save
the whole of mankind,
you have failed.”
Jan de Hartog