Nedd Willard

Nedd Willard (born 1926) is an American author and artist living in Thorens-Glières, France, and Geneva, Switzerland.

Biography

Willard in 1969

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."^[1]

Willard taught at the University of New Hampshire and Columbia University and then began work at international institutions. Willard spent three months of professional activity in Ethiopia and three months in Cameroon. For six years he was chief of public information for the World Health Organization in India and Southeast Asia, followed by an assignment as editor-in-chief of World Health magazine of the same agency. He then became editor of UN Special, a magazine for international civil servants in Geneva. In 1981 he was the information attaché for a world survey in preparation for the organization's fifth World Conference on Smoking and Health.^[2]

He is now a free-lance journalist^[3][4] and is a member of the Advisory Circle of the Seva Foundation.^[5]

Published works

• Le Génie et la Folie au Dix-Huitième Siècle (1963) Paris: Presses Universitaires de France.^[6] Of that book, science historian Mirko Drazen Grmek wrote:

Willard diligently analyzes the conception of Man, Genius and Madness such as it appears in the writings of Diderot, in the Encyclopédie, in the Tableau de Paris, by Louis-Sébastien Mercier and in the works of Offray de La Mettrie and the marquis de Sade. It is a pity that Willard omits pointing to the medical works of this era (Pinel, Cabanis, etc.). And, what's more, that he ignores, it seems, several of the most important studies on this subject (Lange-Eichbaum, Semelaigne, etc.). The author does not make the necessary distinction between neuroses, psychoses and troubles of intelligence. Nevertheless, this monograph is a useful contribution to the knowledge about the position taken by the principal French literary and scientific movement in the 18th century concerning the "irrational" behavior of the individual.^[7]

• "Welcome schizophrenia, Jet-lag in Geneva," Ex Tempore, an International Literary Journal, December 2001^[8]
• "Running breathlessly, the enemies, spring in dying, teach me to be a tree," Ex Tempore, December 2001^[8]
• "Picasso Is a Cannibal," essay, Ex Tempore, December 2002^[9]
• "Curtains for the Che," essay, Ex Tempore, December 2002^[9]
• "Our Swords are Made of Tin, The Sailor’s Prayer," Ex Tempore, December 2002^[9]
• The Giant Who Was So Small, children's book^[10]
• A Hard Look at Drugs, 1967, World Health Organization^[6]
• Travels With a Thin Skin, 2010, Gardners Books^[6]
• "Julien Green: A World Both Violent and Poetic," manuscript archival material, 1952^[6]
• La Moralité du Théâtre de Louis-Sébastien, Mercier, Paris, 1955^[6]

Musical cassette

• "Avoidable Disablement," with John Wilson, Ruth Landy, Lucas T. Tandap, World Health Organization, 1984^[6]

Filmography

• Act of Love (1953), actor^[11]

References

1. ^ Dissertation at WorldCat
2. ^ Thomas Land, "Two Tobacco-Producing Countries Ban Smoking in Public Places," Calgary Herald, March 13, 1981
3. ^ "L'Auteur en Quelques Mots," Digimagic website
4. ^ Red Ink literary agency, New Delhi
5. ^ Seva Foundation
6. ^ ^{a b c d e f} [1] WorldCat
7. ^ Translated from "Review: Le génie et la folie au XVIIIe siècle," Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales, 22nd year, no. 3 (May-June 1967) pp. 652–653) Registration required
8. ^ ^{a b} Ex Tempore magazine, December 2001
9. ^ ^{a b c} Ex Tempore, December 2001
10. ^ Red Ink Literary Agency, New Delhi
11. ^ Internet Movie Data Base

External links

• Citations and references in Google Scholar

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