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- 1991-1999 (Creation)
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Typescript copy of interview between Tony Curtis and US poet, painter and social activist Lawrence Ferlinghetti, together with related press cutting and letter to Tony Curtis from Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
Material relating to a series called 'Desert Island Books' held at the Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea and apparently hosted by Tony Curtis, largely comprising texts of interviews between Curtis and various literary figures, together with printed excerpts from the interviewees' chosen books. Among the interviewees are writer, broadcaster and former politician Edwina Currie, broadcaster, author and stage director Ned Sherrin, jazz and blues singer, critic, writer and lecturer George Melly, Labour politician Merlyn Rees and biographer, novelist and short story writer Margaret Drabble.
For names of all interviewees, please request access to this section of the archive.
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Poet, painter and social activist Lawrence Monsanto Ferlinghetti was born in Yonkers, New York. An author of poetry, translations, fiction, theatre, art criticism and film narration, Ferlinghetti was best known for his second collection of poems, A Coney Island of the Mind (1958), which has been translated into nine languages and sold over a million copies. He co-founded City Lights Booksellers & Publishers, an independent bookshop and publishing company situated in San Francisco (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Ferlinghetti#External_links)
For the Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea see, for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylan_Thomas_Centre and http://www.dylanthomas.com/dylan-thomas-centre/history-dylan-thomas-centre/)
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- Ferlinghetti, Lawrence, 1919-2021 (Subject)
- Dylan Thomas Centre (Swansea, Wales) (Subject)