Born: 06/09/1905   Blija, Friesland , The Netherlands
Died: 09/05/1967
Parents: Remmeren R. and Jentje DeJong
Spouse: Helen Elizabeth Moffit, a medical librarian
Children: No children
Address(es):
Last Known
Providence , RI

Image	Title	Genre	Audience	Publisher	Date
	The Squirrel and the Harp	Picture Book	Children	New York: Macmillan	1966
	Alexander, the Monkey Sitter - When Mrs. Twill baby-sits for a monkey, David, his yellow umbrella, and his cat get the situation under control.	Picture Book	Children	Boston: Little, Brown	1965
	Looking for Alexander - A boy and his grandmother devise a scheme to get their cat down from the flag pole.	Picture Book	Children	Boston: Little, Brown and Company	1963
	Outside the Four Walls of Everything	Poetry	Adult	Baltimore, Maryland : Linden Press	1962
	The Birthday Egg - David wakes up one morning and sees a strange face at his window, with a long bare neck, and all his friends have a different idea of what it might have been.	Fiction , Picture Book	Children	Boston: Little, Brown and Company	1962
	The Happy Birthday Umbrella - On the morning of his birthday, a young boy finds a half-opened umbrella with a broken handle, and by the time his friends have given him his presents he has a beautiful open umbrella with windows and bells.	Fiction	Children	Boston: Atlantic-Little, Brown	1960
	The Sayings of Mr. Jefferson - A parrot named Mr. Jefferson escapes from a pet shop, where he has been left while his owner goes on a short vacation, and has several adventures. With the help of "seven sayings" that Mr. Jefferson uses in all the right and wrong places everything turns out well.	Non Fiction	Children	New York: Parnassus	1959
	The Unfairness of Easter; and other stories	Fiction , Short Stories	Adult	San Jose, CA : Talisman	1959
	The Desperate Children	Fiction	Adult	New York: Doubleday	1952
	Two Sofas in the Parlor - The Kegel family lives in a working class neighborhood of "Little Zeeland" in Grand Rapids in 1913. Story about immigrants from the Netherlands that are absorbed in their "old country" attitudes and customs nd find some American ways disagreable.	Fiction , Michigan	Adult	New York: Doubleday	1951
	Snow on the Mountain : and other stories	Fiction , Short Stories	Adult	New York : Reynal & Hitchcock	1949
	Somewhat Angels - World War II	Fiction , Michigan	Adult	New York : Reynal & Hitchcock	1947
	Domination in June	Poetry	Adult	New York: Harper & Row	1946
	With a Dutch Accent - Autobiography	Biography	Adult	New York: Harper & Row	1945
	Across the Board	Poetry	Adult	New York: Harper & Row	1943
	Benefit Street - Social Life and Customs of a Boarding House in Rhode Island	Fiction	Adult	New York: Harper & Row	1942
	Day of the Trumpet - World War II story.	Fiction	Adult	New York: Harper and Row	1941
	Light Sons and Dark	Fiction , Michigan	Adult	New York: Harper & Row	1940
	Old Haven - Personal memoir of his homeland. Translated into 6 languages.	Non Fiction	Adult	New York: Houghton Mifflin	1938
	Belly Fulla Straw	Fiction , Michigan	Adult	New York: Alfred Knopf	1934
	- Contributor to magazines such as Esquire, Harper's Bazaar, Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, The New Republic, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and newspapers		Children
	Smoke - Editor of poetry journal	Poetry

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According to the American National Biography he came with parents to Grand Rapids, MI, 1918. Calvin College records say he came in 1918. Brother of Meindert DeJong. David Cornel De Jong Collection, 1901-1996 Collection at Calvin College consists of correspondence, poems, articles, photographs, writings, travel memorabilia, diaries of Helen De Jong (spouse), paintings, copyright documents (copyrights belong to Calvin College), and index of D. C. De Jong's materials at Brown University - Harris Collection.

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