Dylan Thomas in America Author:John Malcolm Brinnin Among the most esteemed contemporary poets, Dylan Thomas was admired in England and wildly adulated in America. His romantic personality, love affairs, bouts of drinking, and mockingly unconventional behavior--in the salons of the rich, the quiet university, or the neighborhood pubs only seemed to endear him to Americans, students in particular... more ». John Malcolm Brinnin, himself a poet, as Thomas's lecture-agent, friend, and companion in America, presents a searchingly honest picture of this life-loving and life-denying poetic genius and of his beautiful wife, Caitlin.« less