George Tremlett on Dylan and Caitlin Thomas
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George Tremlett\\xa0(born 1939)\\xa0is an English author, bookshop owner, and former politician.
According to his own biography, after leaving\\xa0King Edward VI School Stratford-upon-Avon, he worked for the\\xa0Coventry Evening Telegraph\\xa0from 1957 onward as a TV columnist and pop music reviewer. In 1961 he became a freelance rock journalist and in the 1970s wrote a series of paperbacks on pop stars, including\\xa0The\\xa0David Bowie Story, the first bio of the musician.\\xa0
He is a biographer of\\xa0Dylan Thomas\\xa0and his wife\\xa0Caitlin. He interviewed Caitlin at her home in Catalonia for the book\\xa0Caitlin: Life with Dylan Thomas.\\xa0He has argued that Thomas was "the first rock star."\\xa0In 1997 he published a book with James Nashold,\\xa0The Death of Dylan Thomas, which claimed that Thomas\' death was not due to alcohol poisoning but to a mistake by Thomas\' physician in prescribing cortisone, morphine and benzedrine when Thomas was actually in a diabetic coma.
Tremlett runs the Corran Bookshop in\\xa0Laugharne, Wales "a shrine to the poet"; has since 1982.\\xa0The shop offers tourist information...and it\'s where I met George to have this conversation.
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