TWA Poet: D.H. Lawrence

1885 - 1930

It's the birthday of D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence, born in Eastwood, England (1885). He wrote poetry and plays and literary criticism, but he's best known for his novels Sons and Lovers (1913), Women in Love (1920), and Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928).

He had an incredibly difficult life. He was a teacher, but he caught tuberculosis as a young man and event…