Dylan Thomas was a well-known poet. Different people had different views on his work. Dylan Thomas has written numerous short stories, an unfinished novel entitled Adventures in Skin Trade, the radio play entitled Under Milk Wood, three prose dramas and numerous film scripts. He also wrote book reviews, radio lectures, and descriptive essays, many of which were collected in the volume titled Quite Early One Morning published after his death (Korg 1). In The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry it is said that Dylan Thomas was born on October 27, 1914, where he spent his days growing up in Swansea, South Whales. His father was a high school English teacher. Dylan Thomas left school in 1931 to write on his own instead of going to college. In 1933, Dylan Thomas was “discovered” as a poet when he won a poetry contest in a popular newspaper (Thomas, English 2444). In 1934, at the age of twenty, he published his first book entitled 18 Poems. The same year he moved to London and several other villages where he began to drink heavily. In 1936, he met Caitlin Macnamara, a young Irish woman, who like him had a bad temperament, they married and had three children. He supported himself in recent years in part through extensive speaking tours of the United States, during which, drunk or sober, he gave grand poetry readings on a dozen college campuses (Thomas 101). His drinking gradually took up most of his time, which helped him die prematurely in New York (Thomas 102). Donald Tritschler stated this in his essay The Red Notebook of Dylan Thomas, in which Thomas filled at least four notebooks with poetry and one of them was called the Red Notebook with Short Stories at the age of twenty. The ten stories from the Notebook ...... middle of paper ......005): 39. MasterFILE Premier. EBSCO. Internet. July 19, 2010. Korg, Jacob. “Stories and dramas”. Dylan Thomas. TwaynePublishers, 1992. Rpt. In News Review. Ed. Justin Karr. Flight. 44. Detroit: Gale Group, 2001. Gale Library Resources. Internet. July 19, 2010. Ramazani, Jahan, Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair. “DylanThomas.” The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry. New York: WW Norton, 2003. 101-10. Print.Thomas, Dylan. “DylanThomas.” The Norton Anthology of English Literature. 8th ed. Flight. 2. New York, New York: Norton, 2006. 2444-2450. Print. Tritschler, Donald. “The RedNotebook Stories of Dylan Thomas.” Journal of Modern Literature 2.1 (September 1971): 33-56. Rep. In News Review. Ed. Justin Karr. Flight. 44. Detroit: Gale Group, 2001. Gale Library Resources. Internet. July 19 2010.