David N. Thomas


Born in 1945, David N Thomas was brought up in south Wales, and studied at a number of English universities. From 1970, he worked in London as a community worker, and then as a lecturer at the National Institute for Social Work and Chief Executive at the Community Development Foundation. He was also a founder member of the European Community Development Network, and a Council of Europe Fellow. He has published widely, including Skills in Neighbourhood Work, with Paul Henderson.
He retired back to Wales in the early 1990s, and since then has written about the life and death of Dylan Thomas. His first book on Thomas was published in 2000, A Farm, Two Mansions and a Bungalow. The film rights were sold to make The Edge of Love.
He has recently published Fatal Neglect: Who Killed Dylan Thomas?, as well as A True Childhood: Dylan's Peninsularity.

Selected Works on Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas: A Farm, Two Mansions and a Bungalow, Seren 2000
The Dylan Thomas Murders, Seren 2002
The Dylan Thomas Trail, Y Lolfa 2002
Dylan Remembered 1914-1934, vol 1, Seren 2003
Dylan Remembered 1935-1953, vol 2, Seren 2004
Fatal Neglect: Who Killed Dylan Thomas?, Seren, 2008
The Death of Dylan Thomas, Western Mail, November 1 2008
Dylan Thomas and The Edge of Love, in Cambria, February 2013
A True Childhood: Dylan's Peninsularity, in Dylan Thomas: A Centenary Celebration, ed. by Hannah Ellis, Bloomsbury 2014

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