Table of Contents

List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Names from the Past; 2. His Father's Son; 3. A Sort of Schoolboy; 4. Reporter, Actor, Poet; 5. A Case of Cancer; 6. London; 7. Caitlin; 8. Marriage; 9. War and 'Fern Hill'; 10. A Voice on the Radio; 11. Laugharne and America; 12. No Money, Few Poems; 13. The Knot; 14. Running Faster; 15. Alcohol and Morphia Postscript: The Thomas Business; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index

About the Author

Paul Ferris was born in Swansea and worked briefly on the local newspaper where Dylan Thomas was a reporter twenty years earlier. Richard Burton, Sigmund Freud and Caitlin Thomas are among his other biographical subjects. He has also edited Dylan Thomas' Collected Letters and written many novels.

Reviews

"Detached, sympathetic, highly accomplished biography" The Observer "A hilarious, shocking, sad story... a brilliant book" Kingsley Amis "Thomas' best biographer" - London Review of Books "...stands apart, and instantly impresses by its civilized tone and balance" - Daily Mail "Its strength lies in its understanding of Thomas' roots in a particular West Wales culture - 'haunted, ingrowing, ill-fated'" - The Scotsman