Davies' father died when he was a child and when his mother remarried he was adopted by his paternal grandparents. He emigrated to America when he was 22 and spent years wandering around the world.

He published poetry, but his best-known work is his Autobiography of a Super-Tramp.

References

Dictionary of Welsh Biography down to 1940. (London: Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1959)
Dictionary of National Biography
Davies, William Henry. Autobiography of a Super-Tramp. (London: Cape, 1955)
Oxford Companion to the Literature of Wales, edited by Meic Stephens. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986)

Indexes

European
Uk/great Britain
USA
19th Century
20th Century
Literature
Homelessness, Drifting
Sent for Adoption/Fostering when Parent Began New Relationship, Conflict With Step-parent
Grandparents
Parent(s) Died, Disappeared or Became Incapacitated