Published in association with the National Library of Wales.

Dylan Remembered: 1913-1934 is the first of two volumes culled from the archive tapes of journalist, broadcaster and author Colin Edwards. Edwards, a California-resident Welshman, had interviewed everyone he could find with a Dylan Thomas connection for a biography of the poet he was unable to complete before his early death. Since the sixties the numerous tapes have been stored at the National Library of Wales, ignored by Thomas' subsequent biographers and researchers.

Now David N. Thomas has edited extracts from the tapes into two fascinating collections. In them he has discovered startling new information about his life and writing. For the first time, in many cases, we have well-documented evidence of certain aspects of Dylan's biography, the influences on his writing and the sources from which he drew inspiration.

In addition, the editor has added his own research, spinning-off from the newly-discovered archive material to complete the picture of Dylan's personal and family background. This book, which covers Dylan's life to the age of twenty, when he left Swansea for ñ he hoped ñ a bohemian life in London, ends the need for speculation. Now made fact, the story is here in a book invaluable for the academic and the general reader alike.

David N. Thomas is a former lecturer in sociology, now a freelance writer and researcher currently specialising in the work of Dylan Thomas. He is the author of Dylan Thomas: A Farm, Two Mansions and a Bungalow, a significant reappraisal of Thomas' life in rural Wales, and a literary mystery, The Dylan Thomas Murders.