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Willard Marsh
1922–1970
A musician, teacher, poet, and novelist, he brought a wide-ranging life experience to his fiction. His work included literary novels as well as short speculative fiction, and part of his writing life unfolded in the expatriate arts community around Ajijic, Mexico.
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The Ethicators
by Willard Marsh
About the author
Born in Oakland, California, in 1922, he first stood out as a gifted trumpet and trombone player before turning seriously toward writing. During World War II he served in the U.S. Army Air Forces in the South Pacific, and later studied at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, earning both a B.A. and an M.A.
His career was unusually varied: he taught, wrote poetry and fiction, and published across different genres. Archives and bibliographic records describe him as the author of novels, short stories, and other literary work, while accounts of the Lake Chapala scene place him among the active writers living and working in Ajijic during the 1950s and 1960s.
He died in Guadalajara, Mexico, in 1970. Though not widely known today, his surviving papers and published work suggest a writer with an adventurous life and an eclectic creative voice.