Nedd Willard

Nedd Willard (August 23, 1926 – July 12, 2018) was an American author and artist living in Thorens-Glières, France, and Geneva, Switzerland. He was a merchant sailor, university teacher and worked in public relations for the World Health Organization.

Biography Born in New York City, Willard was a merchant sailor on the Hudson River and on the Atlantic Ocean during the Second World War, after which he hitchhiked across the United States, doing odd jobs to earn his living. He toured Spain on a motorcycle in the 1960s and earned his doctorate at the Sorbonne with a dissertation on the subject of "Genius and Madness in the 18th Century".

Willard taught at the University of New Hampshire and Columbia University

He became a free-lance journalist and was a member of the Advisory Circle of the Seva Foundation.

Family

In 1956, Willard was married to Diana Kent (Sharp), whom he met while she was doing postgraduate work in French literature at the Sorbonne, where Willard was teaching. They had a son, Ethan, and a daughter, Briar.

His second wife was Lucia Maloney, a classical Indian dancer who died September 21, 1976, in London, England. His third wife was Poppy Willard.

Willard died in Switzerland in July 2018 at the age of 91.

Works

Print "Julien Green: A World Both Violent and Poetic," manuscript archival material, 1952 A Hard Look at Drugs, 1967, World Health Organization "Welcome schizophrenia, Jet-lag in Geneva," Ex Tempore, an International Literary Journal, December 2001 "Running breathlessly, the enemies, spring in dying, teach me to be a tree," Ex Tempore, December 2001 "Curtains for the Che," essay, Ex Tempore, December 2002

Musical cassette "Avoidable Disablement," with John Wilson, Ruth Landy, Lucas T. Tandap, World Health Organization, 1984