The King Never Smiles: A Biography of Thailand's Bhumibol Adulyadej Paul M. Handley
Publisher: Yale University Press

Handley, The King Never Smiles: A Biography of Thailand's Bhumibol Adulaydej (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006). €No one really knows what will happen. No reason was given for the pardon, 8 DECEMBER 2011. Thailand frees US man jailed over banned book. Thailand's Bhumibol Adulyadej, the only king ever born in the United States, came to the throne of his country in 1946 and is now the world's longest-serving monarch. Bhumibol Adulyadej, the king who never smiles. US blogger jailed for insulting Thai king. Joe Gordon, who was sentenced in December for translating excerpts of the book The King Never Smiles into Thai, was released from jail on Tuesday night. American Citizen, Joe Gordon was sentenced to two and a half years of prison in December 2011 for insulting King Bhumibol Adulyadej. The move is in response to the site's publicity material for The King Never Smiles: A Biography of Thailand's Bhumibol Adulyadej, a book in which the author criticizes the king of Thailand. Towering high in the heavens overlooking the courtyard of Bangkok's Siriraj Hospital stands an “It will be a gigantic moment,” says Paul Handley, author of the definitive and unauthorized biography, The King Never Smiles. King Bhumibol Adulyadej and Queen Sirikit of Thailand review the honor guard during the King's 80th birthday at the Royal Plaza, Bangkok in 2008. For those who haven't yet seen it, at New Mandala, journalist and author of The King Never Smiles, Paul Handley has reviewed King Bhumibol Adulyadej, A Life's Work: Thailand's Monarchy in Perspective. King Bhumibol Adulyadej was born in 1927 in Boston to Prince Mahidol, the half brother of the then Thai king [King Prajadipok or Rama VII]. King Bhumibol Adulyadej : Thailand's Guiding Light (Bangkok: Post Publishing, 1996).