Poet, teacher, editor, and literary critic, JOHN MALCOLM BRINNIN was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and educated at the University of Michigan and at Harvard. His most recent book, DYLAN THOMAS IN AMERICA, was published under the Atlantic—Little, Brown imprint in 1955. This is the second excerpt from his forthcoming book, THE THIRD ROSE, a fullscale biography of Gertrude Stein, her life, her writings, her associates, and the cultural movements of which she was a part.
Poet, teacher, editor, and literary critic, JOHN MALCOLM BRLNNIN was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and educated at the University of Michigan and at Harvard. His most recent book, DYLAN THOMAS IN AMERICA, was published under the Atlantic-Little, Brown imprint in 1955. This is the first of two excerpts from his new book, THE THIRD ROSE, a full-scale biography of Gertrude Stein, her life, her writings, her associates, and the cultural movements of which she was a part.
JOHN MALCOLM BRINNIN, a poet and teacher long associated with the Poetry Center of the YM-YWHA in New York City and now teaching at the University of Connecticut, was instrumental in bringing Dylan Thomas to America in 1950. He handled the many details of the poet’s three tours; he became an intimate friend and the deeply troubled observer of an unfolding tragedy. His account of those fateful years is, as Katherine Anne Porter puts it, “most honestly and movingly and disturbingly told” in his new book, Dylan Thomas in America, which will be published this month by Atlantic-Little, Brown and from which this is an excerpt.
This is the first of two chapters which the Atlantic will draw from JOHN MALCOLM BRINNIN’S forthcoming book, Dylan Thomas in America. Mr. Brinnin, a poet and teacher long associated with the Poetry Center of the YM-YWHA in New York City and now teaching at the University of Connecticut, was instrumental in bringing Dylan Thomas to America in 1950. He handled the many and difficult details of the poet’s three tours; he became an intimate friend who visited the Thomases in Wales, and the deeply troubled observer of an unfolding tragedy. His account of those fateful years is, as Katherine Anne Porter puts it, “most honestly and movingly and disturbingly told.”