Biography

1914	October, 27 - Dylan Marlais Thomas born at 5 Cwmdonkin Drive, Uplands, Swansea
1925	Enters the Swansea Grammar School
1926	Publishes his first poem: The Song Of The Mischievous Dog
1931	Leaves school and becomes junior reporter for The South Wales Daily Post
1932	Leaves The South Wales Daily Post and joins Swansea's Little Theatre Company
1933	First poem published in the New English Weekly: And Death Shall Have No Dominion First visit to London, where he stays with his sister Nancy and visits editors of literary magazines First poem published in Poet's Corner of the Sunday Referee: That Sanity Be Kept Starts a correspondence with Pamela Hansford Johnson
1934	Second visit to London, where he stays with Pamela Hansford Johnson who becomes a benefactor and a friend for life Takes lodgings in London Wins Book Prize of the Poet's Corner December 18 - Publication of his first book: Eighteen Poems
1936	Meets Caitlin Macnamara at the Wheatsheaf Pub September 10 - Publication of Twenty-Five Poems
1937	April 21 - First broadcast for BBC Radio: Life and the Modern Poet July 11 - Marries Caitlin Macnamara
1938	August - Moves to Bay View, Laugharne Participates in "The Modern Muse" with W.H.Auden for BBC Radio
1939	January 30 - Llewellyn Edouard (son) born Publication of The Map of Love The World I Breathe published in the United States
1940	Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Dog published in Britain and the U.S.
1941	Dylan and Caitlin move back to London Finds work as script-writer for films with the Strand Film Company
1943	March 3 - Aeronwy Bryn (daughter) born
1945	Awarded The Levinson Prize by Poetry Magazine
1946	Publication of Deaths And Entrances Selected Writings Of Dylan Thomas published in the U.S.
1947	The Society of Authors awards a scholarship to visit Italy Dylan and Caitlin travel to Italy; in Florence Dylan writes In Country Sleep Dylan's new short story Return Journey broadcasted for BBC Radio
1948	Trip to Prague as a guest of the Czechoslovak writers union Moves back to Wales, where they live in The Boat House, Laugharne
1949	July 24 - Colm Garan (son) born
1950	First lecture tour in the U.S.
1951	In Iran, writing a film script for the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company Writes Lament, Poem On His Birthday, Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night and the first part of Under Milk Wood
1952	Second lecture tour in the U.S. Collected Poems published in Britain and the U.S.
1953	Publication of The Doctor And The Devils Third lecture tour in the United States; first stage performance of Under Milk Wood in New York October 19 - last public engagement in New York November 5 - Dylan collapses at the Chelsea Hotel November 9 - Dylan dies at St Vincent's Hospital, New York