As Leslie Norris says in his foreword to
Dylan Thomas: The Collected Stories (1983): "There is plenty of evidence that he considered poems and stories equal products of his gift, drawing no clear distinction between them, knowing they came from the same source." Thomas's stories are generally divided into what Jacob Korg calls "vigorous fantasies in poetic style, a genre he discontinued after 1939, and straightforward, objective narratives."
Dylan (pronounced "Dullan" by Welsh purists, though Thomas himself preferred "Dillan") Marlais Thomas was born on 27 October 1914 in the house at 5 Cwmdonkin Drive, Uplands, Swansea, where he spent his next twenty-three years. His father, David John Thomas, was senior English master at the Swansea Grammar School, where Dylan Thomas learned to abhor formal education. His mother, Florence Williams Thomas, was a fussy matriarch, always concerned about her children's health. He had a sister, Nancy Marles, who was nine years older than he. Although family would be an important element in Thomas's autobiographical stories, his sister and mother would, curiously, be omitted.
English was Thomas's best and favorite subject; he habitually neglected his other studies.
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