Book description
D. H. Lawrence: The Life of an Outsider is an illuminating and
clear-sighted portrait of one of the twentieth century's most
brilliant, radical and misunderstood writers.
John Worthen follows Lawrence's from his awkward and intense youth
in Nottinghamshire, through his turbulent relationship with Frieda and
the years of exile abroad to his premature death at the age of 44. His
account is an intimate and absolutely compelling reappraisal of a man
who believed himself to be an outsider, in angry revolt against his
class, culture and country, and who was engaged in a furious
commitment to his writing and a passionate struggle to live according
to his beliefs.
John Worthen taught at universities in America and Wales before
becoming Professor of D. H. Lawrence Studies at the University of
Nottingham, where he remains Emeritus Professor. His career as a
Lawrence's biographer began in the 1980s and culminated in the
celebrated D H Lawrence: The Early Years 1885-1912, the first part of
the three-volume Cambridge biography (CUP, 1991-8).
