When he died in 1957 his most recent publishing contract, with Random House, had long since been terminated by his publishers, and his two published novels were out of print. The gradual revival of interest in Lowry's writing after his death eventually led to the post-humous publication of a variety of novels and stories, many of which he had never completed to his own satisfaction. Almost all of these later works are autobiographical and describe Lowry's troubled life and career in the context of journeys he made with his wife through Mexico, Canada, and Italy. Reviewers and critics have generally found these later works disappointing. Interest in Lowry's life was reawakened by Douglas Day's popular biography, which won the 1974 National Book Award for biography, and by the National Film Board of Canada's prizewinning documentary,
Volcano (1976).
Clarence Malcolm Lowry was born in New Brighton, near Liverpool, on 28 July 1909 to Arthur Osborne and Evelyn Boden Lowry. His father was a wealthy businessman, and Lowry had a conventional English upper-class upbringing. He was sent away to private boarding schools to be educated, and a place was made available for him at Cambridge University. It was expected that he would thereafter dutifully enter the family business, as his three elder brothers had done.
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