Burning Man

Frances Wilson's biography follows D.H. Lawrence, the English novelist and poet, from his wartime years hiding in Cornwall with his German-born wife, Frieda, to his last period in New Mexico. Rather than relying only on his published novels and poems, the author draws on his lesser-known writings and on the recollections of people who knew him, building a portrait of a man who was rarely settled and frequently at odds with those around him.

Lawrence was a divisive figure, and his restless movements were closely bound up with the ideas he was developing. Wilson traces how those ideas took shape and shifted over the course of his travels, showing the intellectual currents that ran through his life and work.

Wilson is a British writer and critic, and her study is written for readers interested in Lawrence's life as well as the wider circle of ideas that shaped his writing.