Gerald Heard

Gerald Heard
black and white head shot of a middle-aged white man with beard in checked shirt facing left.
Born
Henry FitzGerald Heard

(1889-10-06)6 October 1889
London, England
Died14 August 1971(1971-08-14) (aged 81)
Santa Monica, California
Other namesHenry FitzGerald Heard
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
Occupations
  • Science writer
  • historian
  • philosopher
  • novelist
PartnerChristopher Wood
Websitegeraldheard.com

Henry FitzGerald Heard[1] (6 October 1889 – 14 August 1971), commonly called Gerald Heard, was a British-born American historian, science writer and broadcaster, public lecturer, educator, and philosopher. He wrote many articles and over 35 books.

Heard was a guide and mentor to numerous well-known people from the 1940s through the 1960s, including Aldous Huxley, Henry Luce, Clare Boothe Luce, and Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous. His work was a forerunner of, and influence on, the consciousness development movement that has spread in the Western world since the 1960s.

  1. ^ "Official Website – Christened as Henry Fitz Gerald Heard". Archived from the original on 24 August 2017. Retrieved 10 December 2013.