Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas was born in Swansea on 27 October 1914 the son of a senior English master. On leaving school he worked on the South Wales Evening Post before embarking on his literary career in London. Not only a poet he wrote short stories film scripts features and radio plays the most famous being Under Milk Wood. On 9 November 1953 shortly after his thirty-ninth birthday he collapsed and died in New York city. He is buried in Laugharne Carmarthenshire which had become his main home since 1949. In 1982 a memorial stone to commemorate him was unveiled in 'Poet's Corner' in Westminster Abbey.