Chris van Abkoude

Pietje Bell, drawn by Jan Rinke in Chris van Abkoude's 1914 novel Pietje Bell of de logevallen van een ondeugenden jongen

Chris van Abkoude (November 6, 1880, Rotterdam - January 2, 1960, Portland, Oregon) was a Dutch writer and novelist of mostly children's books. He wrote the series of Pietje Bell novels from 1914 to 1936 and many books in between. He moved to the U.S.A in 1916 and wrote all the Pietje Bell books in the United States, except for the first one, which he wrote in 1914 in Rotterdam. Before his writing career, van Abkoude was a teacher; when he noticed the children did not like reading the children's books of the time, he wrote his own.

References

• Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren (Dutch) - A website with information on him and his books

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Name	Abkoude, Chris van
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Date of birth	November 6, 1880
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Date of death	January 2, 1960
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