![]() The poem contains the line "I am not a man", as Somtow was not yet an adult. Shirley MacLaine saw it, and thinking that it was written by a dead poet, included it in her autobiography, Don’t Fall Off the Mountain. At age 11, he wrote a poem called "Kith of Infinity", which was published in the English-language Bangkok Post. He returned to Thailand in the early-1960s for a five-year period, during which he became fluent in the Thai language. Somtow was educated at Eton College and at St Catharine's College, Cambridge. He moved to England with his parents in 1953 at the age of six months. Youth Ī descendant of the Royal Chakri dynasty (his grandfather's sister was a cousin and consort of King Vajiravudh), Somtow was born in Bangkok. He served as a musical consultant on the Todd Field film Tár. ![]() ![]() Somtow has both Thai and American citizenship. He is also a science fiction, fantasy, and horror author writing in English. Somtow (a rearrangement of his real name Somtow Papinian Sucharitkul Thai: สมเถา สุจริตกุล RTGS: Somthao Sucharitkun born 30 December 1952) is a Thai-American musical composer. ![]()
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