2 Quotes & Sayings By David Herbert Lawrence

David Herbert Lawrence was a British novelist, poet, playwright, literary critic and social commentator. He is best known for his novel "Lady Chatterley's Lover". Although Lawrence was a prolific writer, he found that he could not make a living from his writing alone. He began writing "The Rainbow" in 1906, and published it in 1911 Read more

It took him three years to complete the novel, which was a huge success when it was finally published in 1915. The novel was suppressed by the British government for decades, but the work became known as a key text of 20th-century Western sexual liberation. In 1922 Lawrence went to Italy, where he lived for ten years.

In 1926 he married Frieda Weekley, with whom he had a son and a daughter. In 1930 Lawrence received the Nobel Prize in Literature. In 1930 he left Europe for several months to live in Egypt, where he contracted malaria; he died there on March 2, 1930.