His love of literature and his childhood desire to be a writer was fed by the books read in Llanelli library.
[citation needed] Glynne-Jones left school at 15 and began working at Glanmor Foundry at 16 as a steel-foundry moulder.
[3] While his wife and son remained initially in Wales, he went to London to pursue an ambition to earn his living as a freelance writer and novelist.
Glynne-Jones wrote with fidelity and feeling about many aspects of life in industrial South Wales in the 1920s, notably the steel foundries and the Llanelli area.
[citation needed] His circle of literary friends, acquaintances, and correspondents included: Glyn Jones,[4] Doris Lessing,[4] W. Somerset Maugham, George Ewart Evans,[4] Gareth Hughes (a first cousin), Gwyn Jones, Gwyn Thomas, Dylan Thomas, Brian Forbes, Emyr Humphreys, Clifford Evans, Emlyn Williams and Richard Burton.