Malcolm lowry biography

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After Lowry published “Under the Volcano,” in , he was hailed as a successor to Joyce. His wife, Margerie, edited the HUGHES

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Malcolm Lowry died in his cottage in the village of Ripe, in Sussex, late at night on June 26, , or early the next morning. He was forty-seven years old. His wife, Margerie, found his body upstairs, on the floor of their bedroom. An autopsy revealed that Lowry, an alcoholic, had been drunk, and the doctor who examined the body found that he had swallowed a large number of barbiturates and had inhaled some half-digested food from his stomach. An inquest was held, at which a police officer, the Lowrys’ landlady, and Margerie testified. The coroner ruled the fatality a “misadventure”—that is, an accident. Lowry had choked to death on his own vomit.

Lowry is known for his novel, “Under the Volcano,” which chronicles the final hours of Geoffrey Firmin, an alcoholic Englishman living in Mexico, in the shadow of the Ixtacihuatl and Popocatepetl volcanoes. On November 1st, the Day of the Dead, Firmin, the former British consul, finds that his estranged wife, Yvonne, has come back to town. Paralyzed by his alcoholism, he drifts from cantina to cantina, considering ways to reclaim her; but he never acts. By nightfall, Firmin is dead i

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Malcolm Lowry

English poet and novelist

Malcolm Lowry
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Born	Clarence Malcolm Lowry ()28 July New Brighton, England
Died	26 June () (aged&#;47) Ripe, England
Occupation	Novelist, poet
Literary movement	Modernism
Notable works
Spouse	Jan Gabrial &#; &#; (m.&#;; div.&#;)&#;

Clarence Malcolm Lowry (; 28 July – 26 June ) was an English poet and novelist who is best known for his novel Under the Volcano, which was voted No.&#;11 in the Modern Library Best Novels list.^[1]

Biography

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Early years in England

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Lowry was born in New Brighton, Wirral,^[2] the fourth son of Evelyn Boden and Arthur Lowry, a cotton broker with roots in Cumberland. In , the family moved to Caldy, on another part of the Wirral peninsula. Their home was a mock Tudor estate on two acres with a tennis court, small golf course and a maid, a cook and a nanny.^[2]^[3] Lowry was said to have felt neglected by his mother, and was closest to his brother.^[3] He began drinking alcohol at the age of ^[3]

In his teens Lowry was a boarder at The Leys School in Cambridge,^[4] the school made famous by the novel Goodbye, Mr. Chips. At age 15, he won the junior gol