Malcolm Lowry

Under the Volcano (1947) is a semi-autobiographical novel by English writer Malcolm Lowry. The novel tells the story of Geoffrey Firmin, an alcoholic British consul in the small Mexican town of Quauhnahuac (recognizably Cuernavaca), on the Day of the Dead in 1938. There is also a festival for art and social change, The Under the Volcano Festival, that takes place annually in North Vancouver, British Columbia, in the same location where Malcolm Lowry wrote the novel.