He began abusing alcohol by the time he was 14 years old.Īlthough his father expected him to attend Cambridge and then take his place in the family business like his three older brothers, Lowry wanted some worldly experience to draw on for his writing. Lowry did suffer from chronic constipation as a child and battled a bout of conjunctivitis as a preteen that affected the sight in both his eyes temporarily. For example, he claimed that the noticeable scar on his knee, the outcome of a childhood bicycle accident, was the result of a gunfight during the Chinese civil war. Most biographers attribute this to Lowry's tendency to embellish and fictionalize events to serve his own purposes. Later in his life, Lowry would lament frequently about his abysmal childhood. Sent away to boarding school when he was eight years old and later briefly attended a public school where he wrote poems and stories for the Leys Fortnightly, the school magazine. His father was a wealthy Liverpool cotton broker who provided Lowry with a conventional English upper-class childhood. Lowry was born on July 28, 1909, in New Brighton, near Liverpool, England, the fourth son of Arthur Osborne Lowry and Evelyn Boden Lowry. An uncontrolled alcoholic, Lowry's life was marked by self-destruction and desolation. It weaves together themes of alienation, love, political idealism, and myth. Malcolm Lowry (1909-1957) is best known for his one and only masterpiece, an autobiographical novel entitled Under the Volcano.
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