David N. Thomas (born 1945) is a British writer.
David Thomas was brought up in Pontarddulais and Port Talbot in south Wales. He studied at Balliol College, Oxford, and the London School of Economics, before working as a community worker in London. He was subsequently a lecturer at the National Institute for Social Work and then 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 on community development, including Skills in Neighbourhood Work, written with Paul Henderson.
Thomas retired back to Wales in the early 1990s, and since then has written about the life and death of Dylan Thomas. He has published extensively about Thomas’ associations with both New Quay in Cardiganshire (Ceredigion), and the Llansteffan peninsula in Carmarthenshire. His first book on Thomas, A Farm, Two Mansions and a Bungalow, was published in 2000. The film rights were sold to make The Edge of Love.
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, in the 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
A Postcard from New Quay in Dylan Thomas: A Centenary Celebration, ed. by Hannah Ellis, Bloomsbury, 2014
References
- David Thomas website
- David Thomas website
- "Latest News & Updates". Archived from the original on 2018-07-26. Retrieved 2018-07-30.
- David Thomas website
- Routledge,1980, five editions, as well as Dutch, French, Polish, Slovak and Croatian translations.
- "The Edge of Love". www.imdb.com.
- features: Alan Road, The Observer, August 6, 2000 and David Atkinson, The Daily Telegraph, June 13, 2014
- Jon Gower, Gwales Review
- feature: BBC Countryfile Magazine, April 25, 2014
- see reviews: Nicholas Wroe, The Guardian, November 15, 2003 and James A. Davies, Planet, 2004
- news/feature: John Ezard, The Guardian, November 27, 2004
- (1) Review: T. Dalrymple, British Medical Journal, September 16, 2010. (2). Feature: BBC Arts November 8, 2013 (3) Feature: Nick Harding, The Daily Telegraph, June 19, 2014
- Review: Irish Examiner September 7, 2014
External links
- History has Dylan Thomas dying from drink. But now, a new theory
- "Did hard-living or medical neglect kill Dylan Thomas?". Archived from the original on 2015-12-23.
- Interview David Thomas
- Gilding the legend