List Of Writers

FERRIS, PAUL

Paul Ferris was born in Swansea in 1929 and attended Swansea Grammar School. After two years in the Royal Air Force, he worked for a local newspaper (where Dylan Thomas had worked twenty years previously) and then became a freelance writer based in London. From 1955 to 1989 he contributed feature articles to The Observer of London and was its radio critic. Paul is a renowned biographer and novelist.

His thirty or so books include the standard biography of Dylan Thomas (1977, 1999, 2005), and the only biography of his wife Caitlin (1993); both of which won Arts Council awards. He is the editor of Dylan Thomas’ letters (1986, 2000). Paul’s most recent novel is Cora Crane (HarperCollins, 2003), which is based on the mistress of the American writer Stephen Crane.

Selected Publications:
Then We Fall (Hutchinson, 1960)
The City (Gollancz, 1960)
The Church of England (Gollancz, 1962)
A Family Affair (Hutchinson, 1963)
The Doctors (Gollancz, 1965)
The Destroyer (Hutchinson, 1965)
The Dam (Hutchinson, 1967)
House of Northcliffe: Harmsworths of Fleet Street (Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1971)
The Cure (Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1974)
The Detective (Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1976)
High Places (Coward McCann Geoghegann, 1977)
Dylan Thomas: A Biography (Paragon House Publishers, 1977)
Richard Burton (Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1981)
Talk to Me About England (HarperCollins, 1987)
Children of Dust (Grafton, 1988)
Sir Huge: Life of Huw Wheldon (Michael Joseph, 1990)
Caitlin: Life of Caitlin Thomas (Hutchinson, 1993)
The Divining Heart (HarperCollins, 1995)
Dr. Freud: A Life (Sinclair-Stevenson, 1997)
Infidelity (HarperCollins, 1999)
Dylan Thomas: The Biography (Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1999)
Cora Crane (HarperCollins, 2003)

Contributed to:
Collected Letters by Dylan Thomas (editor) (MacMillan, 1986)