Lattimore, Owen (1900–1989)

US scholar. He edited Pacific Affairs (1934–41). He also taught at the Johns Hopkins University (1938–63) and the University of Leeds, England (1963–75). Lattimore was born in Washington, DC. He spent his boyhood in China and was educated in Europe before returning to China (1919–27), primarily to inner Asia, the subject of many of his later books.