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Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) was a Welsh writer whose works are admired all over the world. He recited poetry to Queen Elizabeth, was featured on a 1967 album by the iconic Beatles, and in 1998 his photograph was sent into space as a tribute to his talent. Dylan Thomas's poetry is featured in the films Interstellar by Christopher Nolan and Solaris by Steven Soderbergh. The author's most famous prose work is A Portrait of the Artist as a Child, the title of which is an allusion to James Joyce's novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Boy (1940) is a collection of ten touching and inspirational short stories in which Dylan Thomas captures the enthusiasm of youth as he recalls the events of his childhood. First, he is a young schoolboy drowning in fantasies in a shabby farmhouse; then he is an aspiring poet with teasing acquaintances and dreams of riches. And finally, a reporter travelling around the suburbs of Swansea, gathering interesting material. Sexuality and male friendship, the two overarching themes of the work, are closely intertwined with the usual questions of love, death and religion that concern every man in his "puppyhood."