found: Her Spotty dog, and other stories, 1983?:t.p. (Gladys Thomas) p. 4 of cover (b. 1935 in Salt River, Cape Town; lives in Ocean View, South Africa)
found: LC data base, 4/25/89(hdg.: Thomas, Gladys)
found: Gladiolus, 2017:unpaginated texts (Gladys Thomas, author of "Cry Rage", an anthology of poems, banned in 1972; [home in] Ocean View; no longer writes [as of 2016]; late husband, Albert Thomas; she had parents of different races, an Irish mother and 'Coloured' father; taken away from her mother by her father's family, even though this was before the Immorality Act of 1951)
found: Facebook, Amazwi South African Museum of Literature page, posting April 7, 2022(South African playwright and poet Gladys Thomas, died April 2022; spent most of her early life in Lakeside and later Simonstown; under the Group Areas Act, her young family was forcefully evicted from Simonstown and relocated to Ocean View, an inland township on the Cape Peninsula; in 1973, together with fellow writer James Matthews, she published a volume of poetry, Cry Rage! which would become the first book of poetry to be banned in South Africa; she also published a book of short stories, Spotty Dog and other Township Children's Stories (1989) as well as nonfiction works on social conditions in the Western Cape; she wrote several plays as an avenue for her protest writing; she with her husband did development work in theatre, establishing and working with amateur theatre groups including Getwize Players)
found: False Bay Echo (online), Gladys Thomas: a voice against injustice, Apr 14, 2022, viewed March 21, 2023(author, poet, short-story writer, playwright, and activist Gladys Thomas, 87, died on Saturday, April 2; one of the first South African women of colour to have her poetry published; this month marks 15 years since Ms Thomas was awarded the Order of Ikhamanga in Silver for exposing injustices and suffering of apartheid through her writing; born Gladys Doreen Adams on December 14, 1934, in Salt River to a mixed-race couple, John Adams and Dorothy O'Riodan, an Irish woman, according to her son, Andre Thomas; lived with her mother in Salt River until she was 6 and then with her father's family in Lakeside; due to racial conflict, not allowed to see her mother again; left school at age 15 to work in factories; married Albert Thomas at age 18; the family had settled in Simon's Town but was relocated to Ocean View under the Group Areas Act; her literary career started in 1967 when she began writing Cry Rage with anti-apartheid activist and poet James Matthews; published in 1971, banned the next year; attended the International Writing Program in Iowa City in 1983 and began writing more)
