T. W. Hard

T.W. Hard is the penname of Edward W. Hard, Jr. M.D., the physician-author who wrote the medical mysteries Sum VII and Oasis. Dr. Hard was born in 1939 and raised in Texas by his parents, Edward W. Hard (PhD; Cornell University) and Molly Hazel-Hard. At the age of 17, he moved to New Haven, CT, to pursue undergraduate studies in Psychology and collegiate athletics at Yale. Throughout his four years he was an integral member of an undefeated football season as a fullback and was tapped in one of Yale's senior societies. Upon an early graduation, he then traveled through Africa for 1 year before attending medical school at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University and attending residency in emergency medicine at Stanford University. He now resides in Northern California.