David N. Thomas (born 1945) is a British writer.
David Thomas was brought up in Pontarddulais and Port Talbot in south Wales.David Thomas website He studied at Balliol College, Oxford, and the London School of Economics, before working as a community worker in London. He was subsequently a lecturer at the National Institute for Social Work and then Chief Executive at the Community Development Foundation.David Thomas website He was also a founder member of the European Community Development Network, and a Council of Europe Fellow.David Thomas website He has published widely on community development, including Skills in Neighbourhood Work, written with Paul Henderson.Routledge,1980, five editions, as well as Dutch, French, Polish, Slovak and Croatian translations.
Thomas retired back to Wales in the early 1990s, and since then has written about the life and death of Dylan Thomas. He has published extensively about Thomas’ associations with both New Quay in Cardiganshire (Ceredigion), and the Llansteffan peninsula in Carmarthenshire. His first book on Thomas, A Farm, Two Mansions and a Bungalow, was published in 2000. The film rights were sold to make The Edge of Love.
Selected Works on Dylan Thomas
Dylan Thomas: A Farm, Two Mansions and a Bungalow, Seren, 2000features: Alan Road, The Observer, August 6, 2000 and David Atkinson, The Daily Telegraph, June 13, 2014
The Dylan Thomas Murders, Seren, 2002.Jon Gower, Gwales Review
The Dylan Thomas Trail, Y Lolfa, 2002feature: BBC Countryfile Magazine, April 25, 2014
Dylan Remembered 1914–1934, vol 1, Seren, 2003see reviews: Nicholas Wroe, The Guardian, November 15, 2003 and James A. Davies, Planet, 2004
Dylan Remembered 1935–1953, vol 2, Seren, 2004news/feature: John Ezard, The Guardian, November 27, 2004
Fatal Neglect: Who Killed Dylan Thomas?, Seren, 2008(1) Review: T. Dalrymple, British Medical Journal, September 16, 2010. (2). Feature: BBC Arts November 8, 2013 (3) Feature: Nick Harding, The Daily Telegraph, June 19, 2014
The Death of Dylan Thomas, in the Western Mail, November 1, 2008
Dylan Thomas and The Edge of Love, in Cambria, February 2013
A True Childhood: Dylan's Peninsularity, in Dylan Thomas: A Centenary Celebration, ed. by Hannah Ellis, Bloomsbury, 2014Review: Irish Examiner September 7, 2014
A Postcard from New Quay in Dylan Thomas: A Centenary Celebration, ed. by Hannah Ellis, Bloomsbury, 2014
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External links
History has Dylan Thomas dying from drink. But now, a new theory
Interview David Thomas Gilding the legend