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Caitlin Thomas

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The Resume

    (December 8, 1913-July 31, 1994)
    Born in London, United Kingdom
    Birth name was Caitlin Macnamara
    Married poet Dylan Thomas (1937-53)
    Wrote 'Leftover Life to Kill' (1957), 'Not Quite Posthumous Letters to My Daughter' (1963) and 'Caitlin: Life with Dylan Thomas' (1986)

Why she might be annoying:

    She said, 'Ours was not a love story proper; it was more of a drink story.'
    She said of her and Dylan's kids, 'Only a miracle saved them from being someone else's.'
    On arriving in New York to see Dylan on his deathbed, she shouted, 'Is the bloody man dead yet?'
    When she found another woman tending to her comatose husband, she flew into a rage, biting an attendant and fighting with bystanders until she was subdued.
    When she was 49, she had a son out of wedlock with Italian director Giuseppe Fazio.
    She gave the child the last name Thomas and tried to get him a share of the Dylan Thomas estate.

Why she might not be annoying:

    She bathed naked in the River Taf.
    With considerable justification, she claimed Dylan's motives for his poetry reading trips to America were 'flattery, idleness and infidelity.'
    She joined Alcoholics Anonymous (1973).
    Despite their stormy relationship, her posthumously published journals revealed her continuing passion for Dylan.

Credit: C. Fishel


Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 5 Votes: 80.0% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 2 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 9 Votes: 77.78% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 9 Votes: 55.56% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 2 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 13 Votes: 69.23% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 25 Votes: 32.00% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 13 Votes: 53.85% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 21 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 14 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 64 Votes: 64.06% Annoying