Lowry, Malcolm

Malcolm Lowry was an English poet and novelist whose best-known novel is Under the Volcano. Born to privilege, Lowry was educated at The Leys School and St. Catharine s College, but delayed his entrance to university in favour of working as a deckhand on the S. S. Pyrrhus. Lowry s experience as a sailor provided inspiration for his first novel, Ultramarine. Over the course of his career, Lowry travelled extensively, and although he wrote numerous novels, short stories, and poems, most were unpublished until after his death in 1957.