Lang persuaded Purdy to join him in seeking out the novelist, Malcolm Lowry, who was living in a shack on a North Vancouver beach.
His education included an English degree from the University of British Columbia in 1967, a Master of Arts from University of California, Berkeley in 1968, and a Ph.D. from McGill University in 1972, in which he focused on the literature of Malcolm Lowry.
In May 1927 his parents drove him to the Liverpool waterfront and, while the local press watched, waved goodbye as he set sail on the freighter S.S. Pyrrhus.
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He continued working on his novel, and met his second wife, the actress and writer Margerie Bonner.
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Malcolm Lowry, a close friend of Sommerfield's, counted him as an important influence, and dedicated his poem Song About Madrid, Useful Any Time to him and Julian Bell.
In all, she wrote some seventeen books, including works on Ibsen, Lowry and Conrad.
An exhibition at the See in 2008 proved very successful and Ray began to plan new schemes including paintings inspired by another namesake Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano.
He talked of going to Mexico as an alternative, a country that fascinated him up until then in books such as Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano.