Caitlin and Dylan, unfinished portrait by Ralph Banbury, c. 1939
Dylan (centre) discusses his role in the BBC radio play The Careerist with Louis MacNeice (right), author of the piece, and Pat Griffiths (left), who did the sound effects
Dylan in London, 1941
Family group at Blaencwm 1942, with Dylan and Caitlin (standing), Florrie, Llewelyn and family friend
Dylan and John Davenport (photographed in 1952)
Dylan’s surrealist-influenced painting for John Davenport’s children, late 1940s
Dylan with poetry producer Patric Dickinson at the BBC
Dylan, Helen McAlpine and Caitlin in Ireland, 1946
Helen McAlpine and Caitlin at the Boat House, Laugharne
Margaret Taylor
At Brown’s: (from left) Bill McAlpine, Caitlin, Ebie Williams, Mary Ellidge, Dylan, Ivy Williams, Mabley Owen (with young Aeronwy in front)
Domestic scene on the veranda at the Boat House: (from left) Caitlin, Aeronwy, Dolly Long, Shelagh Long
Marged Howard Stepney
Dylan in Persia, 1951
Dylan with the actors Griffith Williams and Mario Cabre (right) on the set of the film Pandora and the Flying Dutchman at Pendine Sands, July 1950
Dylan at work in his hut above the Boat House in Laugharne, 1953
Dylan’s father, D.J., in typical pose – reading a newspaper at Pelican in Laugharne
Dylan at a Foyle’s literary luncheon in January 1953, receiving an award for the best volume of poetry in 1952 (his Collected Poems 1934–1952) from Foyle’s chairman William Foyle
Oscar Williams’s snaps of Dylan in the United States, 1950 – with Williams himself
Oscar Williams’s snaps of Dylan in the United States, 1950 – the quizzical tourist
Oscar Williams’s snaps of Dylan in the United States, 1950 – with Stanley Moss
Dylan and his American friend and promoter John Malcolm Brinnin at a book signing with Frances Steloff at the Gotham Book Mart, New York, 1952
Dylan and Caitlin in the United States, 1952
Dylan and Pearl Kazin, London, September 1951
Liz Reitell
Dylan at a rehearsal of Under Milk Wood
Dylan at the White Horse Tavern, Greenwich Village
Dylan in Vancouver, April 1950
Caitlin, Dan Jones and Fred Janes
Dylan on television: in August 1953, Dylan recorded The Outing for television as A Story. (Unfortunately no recording survives; nor indeed is there any moving image of Dylan)
Dylan, the family man, with Caitlin, Aeronwy, Colm and dog Mably
Dylan at play at Vernon Watkins’s house, the Garth, in Gower in 1951: (from left, adults) Dylan, Caitlin, Fred Janes, Gwen Watkins (seated), Ethel Ross
Dylan the genial companion
Dylan the consummate professional showman
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First published in Great Britain in 2003 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
First published in ebook in 2014 by Phoenix.
Copyright © 2003 Andrew Lycett
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