Neil Hollander

Neil Gilbert Hollander (July 9, 1939 – June 17, 2021) was an American writer, film director and producer, journalist and sailor. He sailed across the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. He has conducted more than thirty interviews with Nobel Prize winners, and his work has been exhibited in a number of museums, among them the Smithsonian, the Deutsches Museum and the Jim Thompson House in Bangkok. As an author, he is largely collected by libraries worldwide.

Biography Neil Gilbert Hollander was born on July 9, 1939 in New York City. His younger sister is the lawyer Nancy Hollander, who represented some Guantanamo Bay prisoners. During his career, Hollander has gone through several professions and has lived in various parts of the world, including Thailand, Costa Rica, and France, where he now stays. His passion for sailing took him on a three-year trip across the sea, visiting sea ports around the world and witnessing the life of people who still make their living from the sea in the old traditions. The trip was documented in the 150-minutes video story The Last Sailors: The Final Days of Working Sail, narrated by Orson Welles.

Hollander lived and worked in Paris. He died of lung cancer in Paris on June 17, 2021, at the age of 80.