D. H. Lawrence

Biography

David Herbert Lawrence was born on September 11, 1885, in Eastwood, United Kingdom. A versatile writer, he worked as a novelist, poet, playwright, translator, screenwriter, literary critic, librettist, and artist. Lawrence is regarded as a significant English author of the early 20th century and a representative of literary modernism. His work is known for psychological novels such as Sons and Lovers (1913), The Rainbow (1915), and Women in Love (1920). In these novels, he advocated an instinctive perception of nature and emotion, contrasting maturity and wisdom with the 19th-century rationalism. Another well-known novel by Lawrence is Lady Chatterley's Lover. He died on March 2, 1930, in the French city of Vence.