D. H. Lawrence

D. H. Lawrence was a Nottinghamshire miner’s son who eloped with his professor’s German wife, was hounded out of Cornwall as a spy in the war, and wandered Italy, Australia, Mexico and New Mexico in search of a life that had not been killed by industry and mind. Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow and Women in Love are the novels; The Prussian Officer the story collection of 1914 whose title piece, of an officer’s cruelty to his orderly, is the one the lists assign. Lady Chatterley’s Lover was banned until 1960. He died of tuberculosis at forty-four.