Biography
William Ronald Rees Jones was born in Wales in 1915, at Bethlehem, Carmarthenshire.
In 1937 he began the publication of the literary periodical, Wales. He remained editor of the periodical throughout its life, from 1937 to 1949 and from 1958 to 1960.
in 1939 he married the poet Lynette Roberts. Throughout the 1940s they lived at Llanybri, Carmarthenshire, and had two children - their daughter, Angharad (born 1945) and their son, Pridein (born 1946). During this period Faber published his collection of poems, The Van Pool (1942) and his wife's Poems (1944).
In 1949 he and his wife divorced. In that year publication of the periodical, Wales, was discontinued, and did not resume until 1958, by which time Rhys was living in London.
He lived at Penybont farm, Llangadock, Carmarthen.
He died on 22 May 1987. An archive of his manuscripts is held at the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth. Photographic portraits of Rhys by Howard Coster and Ida Kar are held by the National Portrait Gallery, London.
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