Premise: Anna and the King is a 1944 semi-fictionalized biographical novel by Margaret Landon . Louis Thomas Gunnis Leonowens ( 25 October 1856 -- 17 February 1919 ) was a British subject who was the basis of a major character in the 1944 novel Anna and the King of Siam , as well as other fictional works based on it ( see below ) . He was the son of Anna Leonowens , famous as a tutor of King Chulalongkorn of Siam ( Thailand ) .
Hypothesis: Louis T. Leonowens was written about in the fictional novel Anna and the King of Siam.
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