JAMES H. LORD ’48

JAMES H. LORD, a biographer and memoirist, died August 23, 2009. He was 86. At Wesleyan, he was an economics major before enlisting in the Army, where he served in the intelligence division as a French translator in Europe. After the war, he returned to Paris to live and write about the artists with whom he cultivated an acquaintance. His work includes A Giacometti Portrait, published by the Museum of Modern Art in 1965 in conjunction with a retrospective exhibition, and other books on the artist. In the 1990s he published several volumes of his memoirs, including Picasso and Dora: A Personal Memoir(1993) and A Gift for Admiration (1998). At the time of his death he had just completed another volume, My Queer War, published this year. He is survived by his longtime companion and adopted son, Gilles Roy-Lord.