S. P. Somtow (a rearrangement of his real name Somtow Papinian Sucharitkul; Thai: สมเถา สุจริตกุล), b. December 30, 1952, is a Thai and American musical composer. He is also a science fiction, fantasy, and horror author writing in English.
Although born in Bangkok, Somtow moved with his parents to England at the age of six months and English was his first language. He returned to Thailand in the early 1960s for a five-year period, during which he...
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S. P. Somtow (a rearrangement of his real name Somtow Papinian Sucharitkul; Thai: สมเถา สุจริตกุล), b. December 30, 1952, is a Thai and American musical composer. He is also a science fiction, fantasy, and horror author writing in English.
Although born in Bangkok, Somtow moved with his parents to England at the age of six months and English was his first language. He returned to Thailand in the early 1960s for a five-year period, during which he learned the Thai language. At age 11, Somtow wrote a poem called Kith of Infinity, which was published in the English-language Bangkok Post. 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. The poem contains the line "I am not a man", since Somtow was not yet an adult. It is thought this line caused MacLaine to assume that the poet was a woman.
Somtow was educated at Eton College and at St Catharine's College, Cambridge.
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