Willard Anderson Hanna | |
|---|---|
| Personal details | |
| Born |
August 3, 1911 Cross Creek, Pennsylvania |
| Died |
October 5, 1993 (aged 82) Hanover, New Hampshire |
| Nationality | American |
| Spouse | Marybelle Bouchard |
Willard Anderson Hanna (August 3, 1911 – October 5, 1993)[2] was an American author of Southeast Asian history and works of fiction as well as a teacher. Hanna wrote politics, history, and historical fiction. He wrote Bali Chronicles with Adrian Vickers. Hanna co-authored Turbulent Times Past in Ternate and Tidore on the history of the Maluku Islands and Banda Neira with Des Alwi.
Biography[]
He was from Cross Creek, Pennsylvania, and graduated from the College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio, in 1932.[3] He traveled to China and taught English for four years in Shanghai and Hangzhou before returning to the United States and achieving a master's degree from Ohio State University in 1937 and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1939.[3] He joined the Navy in early 1942 and served at the military's Japanese language school at the University of Colorado and then at a military program at Columbia University. He was part of the landings on Okinawa on April 1, 1945 (Battle of Okinawa) as a lieutenant commander, and remained in Okinawa for more than a year. His work there included helping establish schools.[3]
He continued his career at the U.S. State Department for seven years, working in Manila, Tokyo and Jakarta,[4] where he established the United States Information Services offices which he ran until 1952.[3] In Washington, D.C. he graduated from the National War College in 1953 and was deployed to the United States Embassy in Tokyo as an information officer.[3] He resigned from the State Department in 1954 and worked for the American Universities Field Staff in Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore and Hong Kong before he retired in 1976.[3]
He married Marybelle Bouchard. Hanna died in Hanover, New Hampshire, on October 5, 1993 at the age of 82.[3]
Bibliography[]
- Destiny Has Eight Eyes (1941) Harper & Brothers, a novel set in China at the outbreak of World War II
- Bali Profile: People, Events, Circumstances 1001-1976 (Jun 1976)
- The Formation of Malaysia
- Eight Nation Makers
- Indonesian Banda: Colonialism and its aftermath in the Nutmeg Islands (1978)
- The Berkshire-Litchfield legacy: Litchfield, Ancram, Salisbury, Stockbridge, Lenox by (1984)
- Hikayat Jakarta (1988)
- Turbulent times past in Ternate and Tidore (1990)
- Bali Chronicles: A Lively Account of the Island's History from Early Times to the 1970's (Periplus Classics Series) by Willard A. Hanna and Adrian Vickers (November 15, 2004)
References[]
- ↑ "Willard Hanna Memorial". https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/181130597.
- ↑ "Birth Indices: 1911 - H". p. 69. https://www.phmc.pa.gov/Archives/Research-Online/Documents/1911-H.PDF#page=69.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 "Willard A. Hanna, 82, an Author and an Expert on Southeast Asia", by Randy Kennedy, October 8, 1993, New York Times
- ↑ "Obituary - Willard Hanna; Author, Southeast Asia Expert" (in en-US). October 10, 1993. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-10-10-mn-44245-story.html.
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