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New York is associated with many famous and interesting personalities and cultural movements. It is also well known as a favorite city of artists, actors, writers and other creative personalities. This has been true through most of the 20th century due to the fact that artistic personalities of all types have made their way to this great city through the decades. Dylan Thomas is just one of them. He was a Welsh writer who was well known for his public solo readings and his prominent works Under Milk Wood and the poem Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night. Tourists have also been attracted to New York throughout the 20th century and they have enjoyed visiting some of the same locations during their stay in a boutique hotel New York as what famous people were and are known to frequent.

Thomas was born in Whales and lived there through most of his childhood. He visited London in 1932, which was the first of many that would occur through the rest of his life. By 1946 had established his career and the publication of Deaths and Entrances solidified his writing reputation. He began touring the United States in the early 1950s and gave the first public solo reading of Under Milk Wood at Harvard in May of 1953. He then performed it with a cast at the Poetry Center in New York. Thomas’s addiction to alcohol was already affecting his life by this point and was well known to his friends and work associates.

He was back in New York and staying at the Chelsea Hotel in November of 1953. He would regularly visit the White Horse Tavern, which was his New York favorite and was there a few nights before he died. It is famous for being the last place he actually drank. He had been introduced to the tavern by the Scottish Poet Ruthven Todd and could be seen there every time he was in New York. It was immediately suspected that Thomas died from alcohol poisoning or from the effects of chronic drinking. However, he had been complaining of feeling sick and had been given shots of morphine prior to his death. It is also believed that he had pneumonia at the time.

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