D. H. Lawrence
English novelist
Died when: 44 years 172 days (533 months)Star Sign: Virgo
David Herbert Lawrence (11 September 1885 – 2 March 1930) was an English writer, novelist, poet and essayist.His works reflect on modernity, industrialization, sexuality, emotional health, vitality, spontaneity and instinct.
His best-known novels—Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow, Women in Love, and Lady Chatterley's Lover—notably concerned gay and lesbian relationships, and were the subject of censorship trials.
Lawrence's opinions and artistic preferences earned him many enemies, and he endured persecution and misrepresentation of his creative work throughout the second half of his life, much of which he spent in a voluntary exile, four years of which he described as a "savage enough pilgrimage".
At the time of his death, his public reputation was that of a pornographer who had wasted his considerable talents.
However, English novelist and critic E.M.Forster, in an obituary notice, challenged this widely held view, describing him as "the greatest imaginative novelist of our generation." Later, English literary critic F.
R.Leavis also championed both his artistic integrity and his moral seriousness.
