Malcolm Lowry (1909-1957)

• born in England
• educated at Cambridge
• lived in U.S. (1935), Mexico (1936), and Dollarton, British Columbia (1937-1954)
• alcoholic
• suicide in Sussex, England
• Novels:
  • Ultramarine (1933)
  • Under the Volcano (1933) made into a film in (1984)
  • Lunar Caustic (1958) posthumous
  • Hear Us O Lord from Heaven Thy Dwelling Place (1961) posthumous, based on experiences in British Columbia
• biography: Volcano: an inquiry into the life of Malcolm Lowry (RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, 1984)

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