Clarence Malcolm Lowry born on 28 July in Cheshire, England.
1911
The Lowry family moves to Caldy, Wirral, Cheshire.
1915-23
Lowry attends Braeside School and Caldicote School.
1923-27
Attends the Leys School, Cambridge.
1927
May-October: Lowry sails to the Far East as a cabin boy/deck
hand aboard the S.S. Pyrrhus.
1929
April-September: in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Lowry studies under American
poet and novelist Conrad Aiken. October: enters St. Catherine's College,
Cambridge University, England.
1930
Travels to Norway to meet novelist Nordahl Grieg.
1932
Graduates from Cambridge with a B.A. in English.
1933
Jonathan Cape publishes Lowry's first novel Ultramarine.
1934
Lowry marries his first wife, Jan Gabrial, in Paris.
1935
Lowry spends ten days in psychiatric wing of Bellevue Hospital, New York.
Begins writing an early version of Lunar Caustic.
1936
November: in Cuernavaca, Mexico with Jan.
Begins writing Under the Volcano.
1937
Conrad Aiken visits Lowry in Guernavaca. Jan Gabrial leaves Lowry.
1938
Lowry goes to Los Angeles where he begins working on the second draft of
Under the Volcano.
1939
Meets Margerie Bonner on July 7; goes to Vancouver, British Columbia,
Canada where he is joined by Margerie. Begins third draft of Under the Volcano.
1940
August: Lowry and Margerie move to a squatter's shack in Dollarton near Vancouver.
His divorce from Jan is finalized and he marries Margerie on 2 December.
1941
Working on fourth draft of Under the Volcano.
1944
Lowry's shack burns down. He and Margerie go to Niagra-on-the-Lake, Ontario
to stay with Gerald Noxon where he completes the fourth draft of Under the Volcano
on Christmas Eve.
1945
In February Lowry returns to Dollarton and rebuilds shack. Travels to Mexico
with Margerie in November.
1946
Under the Volcano is accepted for publication by Reynal & Hitchcock in New York
and Jonathan Cape in London. Lowry is deported from Mexico and returns to Dollarton.
He later travels to New York via New Orleans and Haiti.
