D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE (1885–1930), the prolific novelist,
poet, and travel writer, was born in Nottinghamshire, England.His
first novel, The White Peacock, was published in 1911, and the next
year he published Sons and Lovers. His masterpieces The Rainbow and
Women in Love were completed in quick succession, but the first was
suppressed as indecent and the second was not published until 1920.
Lady Chatterley’s Lover was published in 1928, but it was banned in
England and the United States for indecency. He died of
tuberculosis in 1930 in Venice.
JOHN SUTHERLAND is a British academic, newspaper
columnist, and author. He is Emeritus Lord
Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature
at University College London. He has twice served as a judge
for the Booker Prize and writes regularly for The Guardian.
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