Kenneth Landon
Kenneth Perry Landon (27 March 1903
World War Two
, he was called to Washington to become a State Department specialist on Thailand. After the war, he became an academic promoter of the study of Thailand.
He was the husband of Margaret Landon, who was best known for writing Anna and the King of Siam.
Early life and career
Landon was born in Meadville, Pennsylvania.[1] He studied at Wheaton College and served as a Presbyterian missionary in Thailand from 1927 to 1937.[2]
They returned, and he received a master's degree and doctorate in comparative religion from the
World War Two, during which he also worked for the Board of Economic Warfare.[5]
After the war, Landon served as associate dean of the School of Language and Area Studies at the Foreign Service Institute and was on the Operations Coordinating Board of the National Security Council.[1] He then served as director of the Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies at American University until his retirement in 1974. He died of cancer in 1993.[1]
References
- "Kenneth Perry Landon, Specialist On Asia, Dies," Washington Post27 August 1993
- ISBN 9780691158433
- Landon Archival Collection Wheaton College.
- * Margaret and Kenneth Landon Papers (SC-38), Wheaton College Special Collections, Wheaton, Illinois
Notes
- ^ Washington Post. Retrieved 5 July 2020.
- ISBN 9780227902967. Retrieved 5 July 2020.
- ISBN 9781139442596. Retrieved 5 July 2020.
- ^ Hollinger (2017), p. 193-194.
- ISBN 9781541699670. Retrieved 5 July 2020.
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