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Harry Willson
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Harry Willson's formal schooling include a B.A. in chemistry and math at Lafayette College, Easton,
PA, 1953 [summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa], and an M.Dv. [Master of Divinity] in ancient mid-east language and literature at Princeton Theological Seminary. He also became bilingual, through one
year of Spanish Studies at the University of Madrid, and he has since studied Spanish, literature,
philosophy, mythology and theatre arts at the University of New Mexico. He has the Diploma de
Espaņol como Lengua Extranjera from the University of Salamanca. He learned more by working: truck farming through high school and college in Williamsport, PA, and jackhammering in Lansdale, PA. He served as student pastor at the Presbyterian Church, Hamburg, NJ, for four years while in seminary. |
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In 1958 he and his wife and three children moved to New Mexico, where he served as bi-lingual
missionary pastor, in Bernalillo, Alameda and Placitas for eight years. He served as Permanent Clerk of
the Presbytery of Rio Grande, Chairman of Enlistments and Candidates, Chairman of the Commission
on Race, and Moderator of the Presbytery. In 1966 he left the church, in sorrow and anger, mostly over the Vietnam War. He taught school for ten years, at the Albuquerque Academy and at Sandia Preparatory School. Since 1976 he has been self-employed and building a body of work as a writer. He has assisted in his wife's business, Draperies by Adela, as bookkeeper, estimator and installer, and has managed several businesses of his own, including worm ranching, organic gardening, conducting dream workshops, raising rabbits, selling fireplace inserts and caning chairs. He has done freelance teaching and writing, for the NEW MEXICO INDEPENDENT, AIM MAGAZINE, ANARCHY, XIZQUIL, HIGHLIGHTS FOR CHILDREN, PM MAGAZINE, Senior Citizen workshops, UNM Honors Department, and UNM Continuing Education Department. Over the decades he has been an activist in peace and justice causes, emphasizing in recent years his concern for radioactive dumping in New Mexico. His work includes four novels, eight plays with two produced, six novellas, eight short story collections, four completed non-fiction works, and a collection of rants. Two novels [A WORLD FOR THE MEEK: A FANTASY NOVEL and SOULS & CELLS REMEMBER: A LOVE STORY], two short story collections [DUKE CITY TALES: STORIES FROM ALBUQUERQUE and VERMIN AND OTHER SURVIVAL STORIES: HUMANITY AS AN ENDANGERED SPECIES],and a juvenile book [THE LITTLE BROWN ROADRUNNER] have been published by Amador Publishers in Albuquerque. Another story collection [THIS'LL KILL YA AND OTHER DANGEROUS STORIES: THE LAST WORD ON CENSORSHIP] was published by III Publishing in California. His work has been hard to classify, according to genre. His outlook is planetary, unitary, peacemaking, anti-racist and anti-sexist, sensing the importance of the inner, curious, sensual, mythic. His interests include: cosmology, philosophy, psychology, mythology, death, anthropology, literature, biography, drama, film, dreams, Spanish, Mind Games, Tarot, piano, basketry, caning, gardening, bees, ecology, travel, his marriage to Adela Amador, five grown children and step-children, and seven grandchildren. He is editor-in-chief of Amador Publishers, an independent press with a total of twenty-three titles, including two prize-winners. With Michelle Miller and Zelda Gatuskin, he has helped produce CHRISTMAS BLUES: BEHIND THE HOLIDAY MASK, An anthology of the work of sixty-three writers and four artists, dealing with holiday depression and mania and the process of healing. Harry Willson is currently seeking an agent, to handle any or all of the completed work. There are ten works in progress, which sounds preposterous, but is nevertheless true. He does not suffer from writer's block -- he simply reaches for another folder.
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