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Dylan Thomas

British author

Also known as: Dylan Marlais Thomas

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In full:: Dylan Marlais Thomas

Born:: October 27, 1914, Swansea, Glamorgan [now in Swansea], Wales

Died:: November 9, 1953, New York, New York, U.S. (aged 39)

Notable Works:: “18 Poems”; “A Child’s Christmas in Wales”; “Deaths and Entrances”; “Fern Hill”; “Under Milk Wood”

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Dylan Thomas (born October 27, 1914, Swansea, Glamorgan [now in Swansea], Wales—died November 9, 1953, New York, New York, U.S.) was a Welsh poet and prose writer whose work is known for its comic exuberance, rhapsodic lilt, and pathos. His personal life, punctuated by reckless bouts of drinking, was notorious. Thomas spent his childhood in southwestern Wales. His father taught English at the Swansea grammar school, which in due course the boy attended. Because Dylan’s mother was a farmer’s daughter, he had a country home he could go to when on holiday. His poem “Fern Hill” (1946) describes its joys. ...(100 of 1192 words)

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