Willard Anderson Hanna (August 3, 1911 – October 5, 1993)[1] 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.
He continued his career at the U.S. State Department for seven years, working in Manila, Tokyo and Jakarta,[3] where he established the United States Information Services offices which he ran until 1952.[2] 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.[2] 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.[2]
He married Marybelle Bouchard. Hanna died in Hanover, New Hampshire, on October 5, 1993, at the age of 82.[2]
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)
