Henry Serrano Villard (March 30, 1900 – January 21, 1996) was an American foreign service officer, ambassador and author.
[2] He was the great-grandson of William Lloyd Garrison, the prominent American journalist and abolitionist.
[4] As a teenager he served as a volunteer ambulance driver in Italy during World War I, becoming friends with Ernest Hemingway when both were patients in a Red Cross hospital in Milan.
[3] Villard died of pneumonia on January 21, 1996 in Los Angeles, California at the age of 95.
He had a great interest in the early days of aviation and authored two books on the subject:[3] Another book was inspired by his experience recuperating from combat wounds suffered while a volunteer ambulance driver in Italy during World War I, observing firsthand the relationship of hospital roommate Ernest Hemingway and their nurse, Agnes von Kurowsky:[3][7] Other works include:[8][9]