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Biography
Malcolm Lowry was born in 1909 in New Brighton, Cheshire. After leaving school, he sailed as a cabin boy to the Far East and used this as basis for his first novel – Ultramarine.
It was on this trip that he started seriously drinking, an affliction that was to remain with him for the rest of his life. After spending some time in Bonn – where he discovered German expressionist cinema, which was to appear in Under the Volcano – he returned to London to study for his Cambridge entrance exams.
Malcolm lowry biography
It was here that he first discovered Conrad Aiken. He persuaded Aiken to be his tutor and he went to Boston, where he spent the summer with Aiken. In October he went up to Cambridge where he studied English, though spent much of his time writing Ultramarine, which was accepted as his thesis.
It was to be published by Chatto and Windus but the manuscript was lost. It was eventually published by Cape in 1933 but had little success.
After university he lived a bohemi