He was still writing but did not complete another novel before his death in 1957 in England from an overdose of gin and barbiturates.Hardcover. Meanwhile, his health was deteriorating and he spent some time in a psychiatric hospital. Lowry was drinking heavily but the couple travelled around Europe. Meanwhile, Under the Volcano had found a publisher.
They moved to Mexico before returning to Canada. After their house burned down, they moved back to Los Angeles, where he started drinking again. He kept on working on Under the Volcano, though it was rejected by various publishers. This was one of the few times in his adult life that he was not drinking. They moved to Canada and finally married when he was divorced from Jan. His father helped clear his debts and he moved to Los Angeles, where he met Margerie Bonner. Lowry was by now working on his masterpiece, Under the Volcano, but also suffering from his alcohol problems and marital problems.
The couple went to Los Angeles to find work as script writers but, when that didn’t work, they went to Mexico, ending up in Cuernavaca. He followed her but matters did not improve and he even spent two weeks at Bellevue psychiatric hospital, which became the basis for his posthumously published novel, Lunar Caustic. She soon left him to return to her parents in New York. It was eventually published by Cape in 1933 but had little success.Īfter university he lived a bohemian and alcoholic life, supported by his father, till he met Jan Gabrial, an American, whom he married in 1933.
It was to be published by Chatto and Windus but the manuscript was lost. In October he went up to Cambridge where he studied English, though spent much of his time writing Ultramarine, which was accepted as his thesis. He persuaded Aiken to be his tutor and he went to Boston, where he spent the summer with Aiken. It was here that he first discovered Conrad Aiken. After spending some time in Bonn – where he discovered German expressionist cinema, which was to appear in Under the Volcano – he returned to London to study for his Cambridge entrance exams. It was on this trip that he started seriously drinking, an affliction that was to remain with him for the rest of his life. After leaving school, he sailed as a cabin boy to the Far East and used this as basis for his first novel – Ultramarine. Malcolm Lowry was born in 1909 in New Brighton, Cheshire.
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