David Ellis is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Kent. His books include D. H. Lawrence: Dying Game, 1922–1930 (1998), Death and the Author: How D. H. Lawrence Died, and Was Remembered (2008), Love and Sex in D. H. Lawrence (2016) and Byron (Reaktion, 2023).

David Ellis has put a lifetime’s thinking into this concise work. Artfully combining details of Lawrence’s biography with acute comments on his writings, it will prove essential reading both for students and for all those already familiar with Lawrence’s work. - John Worthen, Emeritus Professor, University of Nottingham, and author of D. H. Lawrence: The Life of an OutsiderBeing wholly on top of the vast body of relevant Lawrence scholarship never stops David Ellis’s narrative from feeling beautifully paced and clear. His account of D. H. Lawrence’s rich and controversial life and writing is deeply insightful, judicious and at times leavened with a wonderful wry humour. - Howard J. Booth, Senior Lecturer, University of Manchester, and editor of New D. H. LawrenceAs brief and headlong as the life it describes, this biography distils a lifetime’s worth of reflection. Linking the works to the life as closely as they variously demand, it is as perceptive as confident in its judgments, and as much a gift to those who have lived with Lawrence for years as to those to whom this passionate genius is a recent revelation. - Catherine Brown, Vice-President of the D. H. Lawrence Society

• 1 Lawrence before Frieda2 Turning Point3 The Rainbow4 Cornwall and Women in Love5 Orphans of the Storm6 A Busy Time7 A Wider World8 There and Back9 Lady Chatterley’s Lover10 Towards the EndReferencesSelect BibliographyAcknowledgementsPhoto Acknowledgements