D. M. Thomas

D.M. THOMAS was born in Cornwall in 1935 and now lives in Hereford, England. He is the author of seven volumes of poetry, including Selected Poems, published in 1983; four translations (of works by Akhmatova, Pushkin, and Yevtushenko); and three novels—the most recent of which. The White Hotel, was an inter- national best-seller and winner of the Cheltenham Prize and the Los Angeles Times and P.E.N. fiction prizes.