Kenneth Pletcher (Editor)

Kenneth Pletcher is a former Senior Editor of Geography and History at Encyclopædia Britannica, where he worked from 1979 until his retirement in 2016. He holds an M.A. in Japanese studies and a B.A. in political science with a minor in Asian studies from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, having spent an academic year studying in Kobe, Japan. Pletcher edited several books for the Britannica Educational Publishing imprint, including The Britannica Guide to Explorers and Explorations that Changed the Modern World.