Name/Title
Portrait of DylanEntry/Object ID
2019.001Description
Memoir of working with Dylan Thomas by Rollie McKenna, with an introduction by John Malcolm Brinnin. From the inside cover: "Now the distinguished photographer of those haunting pictures, who knew the poet well, has collected these and many other photographs made during Thomas' last years in Wales, in New York City, and at the photographer's home in Millbrook, New York, together with others of Laugharne after the poet's death in 1952. Underscoring the pognancy of the superb photographic images is the text, in which Rollie McKenna remembers Dylan as she knew him, recalls the details of that final summer during which he, his wife Caitlin and John Malcolm Brinnin agonized ove rthe question of whether he should make yet another tour of America, and vividly recounts Dylan's final weeks in New York, ending with his death."
This copy was given to Louis Pittaway, former curator of the Old Lighthouse Museum, and editor of the work. The flyleaf reads: "For Louise, a genius at deciphering - Love Rollie, Stonington, August 31, 1982"Collection
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McKenna, RollieDate Published
1982