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D. H. Lawrence

1885 - 1930

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David Herbert Lawrence (11 September 1885 – 2 March 1930) was an English novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, literary critic, travel writer, essayist, and painter. His modernist works reflect on modernity, social alienation and industrialization, while championing sexuality, vitality and instinct. Four of his most famous novels – Sons and Lovers (1913), The Rainbow (1915), Women in Love (1920), and Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928) – were the subject of censorship trials for their radical portrayals of romance, sexuality and use of explicit language. Lawrence's opinions and artistic preferences earned him a controversial reputation; he endured contemporary persecution and public misrepresentation of his creative work throughout his life, much of which he spent in a voluntary exile that he described as a "savage enough pilgrimage". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. D. H. Lawrence is the 82nd most popular writer (up from 589th in 2019), the 73rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 427th in 2019) and the 8th most popular British Writer.

D.H. Lawrence is most famous for his novels, Sons and Lovers, Women in Love, and Lady Chatterley's Lover.

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Among writers, D. H. Lawrence ranks 82 out of 7,302. Before him are Giacomo Casanova, Sappho, Toni Morrison, George R. R. Martin, Lord Byron, and Nikolai Gogol. After him are Daniel Defoe, Abu Nuwas, Kālidāsa, Maxim Gorky, Du Fu, and Pablo Neruda.

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Among people born in 1885, D. H. Lawrence ranks 2. Before him is Niels Bohr. After him are Princess Alice of Battenberg, Ezra Pound, Faisal I of Iraq, Clementine Churchill, Alban Berg, Karen Blixen, György Lukács, Albert Kesselring, George S. Patton, and François Mauriac. Among people deceased in 1930, D. H. Lawrence ranks 2. Before him is Arthur Conan Doyle. After him are Fridtjof Nansen, Ilya Repin, Alfred Wegener, Mary Harris Jones, Zewditu, Allvar Gullstrand, Fritz Pregl, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Christiaan Eijkman, and William Howard Taft.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, D. H. Lawrence ranks 73 out of 8,785. Before him are James V of Scotland (1512), Aleister Crowley (1875), John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh (1842), Edward the Black Prince (1330), Robert Hooke (1635), and Lord Byron (1788). After him are John Maynard Keynes (1883), Daniel Defoe (1660), Cecil Rhodes (1853), Bertrand Russell (1872), Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (1869), and Harold Harefoot (1016).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, D. H. Lawrence ranks 8. Before him are Agatha Christie (1890), H. G. Wells (1866), Charles Dickens (1812), Thomas Hardy (1840), Arthur Conan Doyle (1859), and Lord Byron (1788). After him are Daniel Defoe (1660), Virginia Woolf (1882), Jane Austen (1775), Lewis Carroll (1832), Emily Brontë (1818), and Mary Shelley (1797).

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