D. H. Lawrence

D.H. Lawrence grew up in the coal-mining town of Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, and would use his working class background as raw material in his early works. Lawrence began to write full-time in 1911, and in 1913 he published one of his most notable novels, Sons and Lovers. Wartime Britain was not kind to Lawrence; his novel The Rainbow was suppressed for obscenity in 1915 and he was forced to live in suspicion and near destitution because of his antiwar views. In 1919, Lawrence left Britain with his wife and headed to Italy. The two spent the rest of their life traveling while Lawrence continued to write; he died of tuberculosis in France at age 44.