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De Hartog’s nautical experiences range from working in the Dutch fishing fleet in the North Sea to serving on oceangoing salvage tugs during World War II, and his published works reflect his experiences. His first novel, Captain Jan: A Story of Ocean Tugboats (1947), is a humorous story of a boy’s career in the merchant navy. The Lost Sea (1951) is de Hartog’s story of his coming-of-age as a stowaway on a Dutch fishing vessel. The Distant Shore (1952) presents two short stories. The first, “War,” was originally published as Stella in 1950 and, after being made into the movie The Key (1958), was published in that year with the movie title. It revolves about one particular sailor and his female companion while on his shore leaves, presenting a poignant story of human relationships in the uncertainties of wartime shipping. The second part, “Peace,” portrays the life of the working waterfront and the maritime scene in the coastal Mediterranean after the close of World War II. A Sailor’s Life (1956) is a collection of very short, reflective vignettes of pre-World War II life at sea by different members of the crew of a vessel identified by their job descriptions and positions. The vignettes comment on the routine of shipboard life, ships and shipping, the sea; it is an assemblage of sailors’ thoughts at sea about the world in which they live, the world they left behind, and the world to which they will be returning. It is a major contribution to our ability to envision life on board merchant vessels in the first half of the twentieth century. The Lost Sea, The Distant Shore, and A Sailor’s Life were published in one volume, The Call of the Sea (1966), for which de Hartog wrote a six-page preface. The Captain (1967) presents life at sea on a wartime oceangoing salvage tug. Its work was rescuing vessels damaged by German submarines, surface ships, or airplanes or by the heavy winds and seas in the North Atlantic from Nova Scotia to Murmansk, Russia. De Hartog’s Captain Martinus Harinxma emerges as a thoughtful observer of the passing human and inhuman scene. Harinxma’s saga is continued in The Commodore: A Novel of the Sea (1986) and The Centurion (1989) and completed in The Outer Buoy: A Story of the Ultimate Voyage (1994). Jan De Hartog Biography (1914-) Born April 22, 1914, in Haarlem, Holland; son of Arnold Hendrik (a universityprofessor) and Lucretia (a univerity professor; maiden name, Meijjes) de Hartog; married Marjorie E. Mein (a photographer), September 29, 1961; children:Arnold H., Sylvia, Nicholas J., Catherine, Eva, Julia. Addresses: AGENT--Robert Lantz, The Lantz Office, 888 Seventh Avenue, New York, NY 10106. Nationality Dutch Gender Male Birth Details April 22, 1914 Haarlem, Holland. Famous Works. Writings;PLAYS Skipper Next to God, 1946. This Time Tomorrow, 1947. The Fourposter, 1951. William and Mary, 1964. I Do, I Do, 1966. Writings;BOOKS The Lost Sea, 1951. The Distant Shore, 1952. THE INSPECTOR. As one reassesses the overall contribution of Jan de Hartog, this latest novel somehow sums up the core of his thinking. He emerges not so much a writer of adventure, or of the sea, but a writer who puts a kind of idealism, a sacrificial motivation, behind the surface pattern of adventure. One feels it in The Little Ark, more strongly still in Spiral Road, most strongly of all in The Inspector. Even The Distant Shore fails in its second part where that compassion and dedication is lost. The Inspector of the title is Peter Jongman, middle aged, a Dutchman, who has never been particularly successful in his role as investigator, as husband, as father. At the start of the story, he is following a suspected case of White Slave trafficking. When, in London, he is faced with the cynicism and inflexibility of Scotland Yard, he takes things into his own hands, and while he finds he cannot shoot down the agent who is his quarry, he does take on the case of the girl, who had given all she could ostensibly to being shipped into Palestine. That she was earlier a victim of the medical experimentation of Auschwitz, living by sheer will power only to reach the promised land, emerges as the story progresses. Jongman finds himself impelled to see this through to the goal, though it means the end of his career, the ultimate judgment of his wife and daughter, the depletion of his slender means -- and long weeks of hardship, struggles against authority and heartbreak. It is an absorbing and at times an incredible tale, but Jongman's fanatical determination to see it through, the girl's strange spiritual strength, end the compassion aroused in successive hard- boiled operators gives it a strange kind of authenticity, as of a lesson learned with difficulty. Jan de Hartog, 88, Author of His Own Life. Jan de Hartog, the Dutch novelist and playwright, the author of the 1951 Broadway hit ''The Fourposter,'' died Sunday in Houston. He was 88 and lived in Houston. Mr. de Hartog's early adventures at sea and his escape from the Nazis during World War II furnished him with material for many of his books. In his long career, he was an inexhaustible storyteller and a writer with a strong social consciousness. In addition to his popular novels and plays, his works included ''The Hospital'' in 1964, a nonfiction book exposing appalling medical conditions in a Houston hospital. ''The Fourposter,'' which won a Tony award as best new play, was a two-character comedy about a decades-long marriage. Starring Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn, and directed by Jose Ferrer, it had a long run on Broadway, was made into a film starring Rex Harrison and Lilli Palmer, and was later turned into the Tom Jones-Harvey Schmidt musical, ''I Do! I Do!,'' starring Mary Martin and Robert Preston. Mr. de Hartog was born in Haarlem, Netherlands. At 10, he ran away to sea and became a cabin boy, called a ''sea mouse,'' on a fishing boat. His father, a minister, had him brought back home, but when he was 12 he ran away to sea again, this time on a steamer in the Baltic. Mr. de Hartog later said his shipmates were ''as evil a collection of pirates as ever sailed the sea,'' but they took him under their wing and confirmed the boy's love of the sailor's life. After briefly attending the Netherlands Naval College, he went to sea again and continued working as a sailor as he began his writing career. He wrote a series of detective stories under the pseudonym F. R. Eckmar, before turning to more serious fiction. ''Holland's Glory,'' a novel about tugboats rescuing ocean liners, sold 500,000 copies, making it a major success in Holland. With the German occupation of the Netherlands during World War II, the novel was regarded as a tribute not only to Dutch courage but to the Dutch resistance movement, which Mr. de Hartog joined. Pursued by the Nazis, he was forced to go in hiding in 1943 and took sanctuary in a home for elderly women in Amsterdam, where he wrote ''The Fourposter.'' Later he escaped through occupied Europe, finally arriving in England. Many years later, in collaboration with his wife Marjorie, he wrote ''The Escape,'' a book about that flight, published in the Netherlands but not in the United States. For a time in England he continued writing in Dutch, then with ''The Lost Sea,'' a novel about a Dutch boy who runs away to sea, he switched to English. Michael Bessie, an editor at Harpers, read ''The Lost Sea,'' and sent a note to Mr. de Hartog saying that he wanted to publish it in the United States and added that he had a few thoughts about possible changes. A letter quickly returned, which Mr. Bessie quoted yesterday from memory: ''I'm grateful for your note. I'm not sure you understand the relationship between writers and publishers. The writer writes. The publisher reads, applauds and sells as many copies as possible.'' Mr. Bessie added a postscript: ''We then published 22 books together'' at Harpers and Atheneum, beginning with ''The Lost Sea'' in 1951. Those books include ''The Distant Shore,'' ''A Sailor's Life,'' ''The Captain,'' ''The Children,'' ''The Peaceable Kingdom'' and, in 1994, his last novel, ''The Outer Buoy.'' Some of the novels were made into films, including ''The Spiral Road'' (with Rock Hudson), ''The Inspector'' (filmed as ''Lisa''), ''Stella'' (which Carol Reed turned into ''The Key'' with Sophia Loren and William Holden) and ''The Little Ark.'' In England, Mr.
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