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Willard Anderson Hanna (August 3, 1911 – October 5, 1993)[2] was an American writer 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.

Willard Anderson Hanna
Born	(1911-08-03)August 3, 1911 Cross Creek, Pennsylvania
Died	October 5, 1993(1993-10-05) (aged 82) Hanover, New Hampshire
Resting place	Pine Knoll Cemetery, Hanover, New Hampshire[1]
Nationality	American
Spouse(s)	Marybelle Bouchard

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)

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