Dylan Thomas

Biography
Works Cited
Kershner, R. B., Jr. “Dylan (Marlais) Thomas” Dictionary of Literary Biography: British Dramatists Since World War II. Ed. Stanley Weintraub. Vol. 13. Detroit: Gale Research, 1982. Literature Resource Center. Web. 24 February 2010.
Middleton, David E. “Dylan (Marlias) Thomas.” Dictionary of Literary Biography: British Poets, 1914-1945. Ed. Donald E. Stanford. Vol. 20. Detroit: Gale Research, 1983. Literature Resource Center. Web. 1 March 2010.

Dylan Thomas has been known for his poems, short stories, and screenplays. According to R. B. Kershner at the University of Florida, Thomas's contribution to drama was probably as an inspired performer, and entertaining public personality, and tragically, as a man doomed to act out the myth of himself.
Thomas was born in Swansea, Wales in 1914. Thomas's father D. J. Thomas was an English teacher and his mother Florence Thomas stayed home with him and older sister Nancy. Thomas went to grammar school from 1925-1931. According to David E. Middleton of North State University, “Thomas entered into his most productive three year period of his life,” after leaving grammar school.
Thomas began working as a copywriter but then moved on to reporting for the South Wales Daily Post. Not having a care for reporting, Thomas would rather be in a pool hall or other locations with liquor available and aspiring poets. He did do some publishing throughout the year of 1933 in a newspaper, the Sunday Referee. In 1934 ...

Dylan Thomas

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