There was a time I would rather have endured minor surgery than read a 400-page biography of D.H. Lawrence, whose misogyny is canon. "The one vile man I have ever known," wrote Virginia Woolf. When ...

Of all the countless anecdotes told of D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930), my absolute favorite takes in the musician-cum-critic Cecil Gray, Lawrence’s neighbor during his World War I-era sojourn in Cornwall.

It’s extraordinary how far he succeeded: what extremes of love and hate he has provoked. For decades after his death, every critic, almost every reader, had their opinion about Lawrence. Responding to ...

In a 1969 essay, Elizabeth Hardwick described the worst kind of literary biography: the overstuffed, underthought tome whose claim to authority rests solely upon the accumulation of facts. In such ...

Richard Aldington’s “D. H. Lawrence: Portrait of a Genius But . . .” (Duell, Sloan & Pearce) is largely a personal biography that emphasizes the difficulties of being Lawrence’s friend, is ...

On D. H. Lawrence: The Life of an Outsider by John Worthen. Lawrence summed up his own “system” briefly in 1913. “My great religion,” he wrote, “is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser ...

THE antagonistic friendship of D. H. Lawrence and Bertrand Russell endured for a little more than a year. Not long after they met, early in 1915, the two men planned to give a series of lectures ...

The sixth in an occasional series on the books that spurred our love of travel. “I am not Baedeker,” D.H. Lawrence forewarns readers of his travel writing from Italy. Instead of train schedules, ...

There was a time I would rather have endured minor surgery than read a 400-page biography of D.H. Lawrence, whose misogyny is canon. “The one vile man I have ever known,” wrote Virginia Woolf. When ...