From Publishers Weekly
In this penetrating profile, Meyers traces a writer who alienated friends, fervidly explored sexuality, restlessly traveled and refused to acknowledge the tuberculosis that claimed his life in 1930. Photos. Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal
This is the first full-scale life of Lawrence since Harry Moore's The Priest of Love ( LJ 2/15/74). Though Meyers is sympathetic, his Lawrence is much less dainty and much more troubled than Moore's. For example, he's not afraid to depict the tempestuous marriage to Frieda as destructive as well as sustaining. At the same time some matters of speculation are presented as fact, and Meyers treats Lawrence's latent homosexuality with particular heavy-handedness. There are a number of errors, and readers may have their doubts about the "significant new information" Meyers claims to have revealed. Further, many passages are drawn--often word-for-word--from the prolific Meyers's earlier books. The author has been enterprising in interviewing those aged survivors with first-hand contact with Lawrence. One can hope that this readable mass-market biography--published by one of its subject's own publishers--will generate new readers for Lawrence.- Keith Cushman, Univ. of North Carolina, GreensboroCopyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Book Description
This masterly work offers an exciting recreation of the life and times of British novelist D.H. Lawrence.

ANNOTATION

The author of a distinguished biography of Ernest Hemingway brings his superb gifts for research and narrative to a writer of comparable importance, whose life was driven toward extremes of passion and violence. Meyers does justice to the English novelist's celebrations of human sexuality and his sometimes scandalous relationships. 16 pages of photographs.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

This masterly work offers an exciting recreation of the life and times of British novelist D.H. Lawrence.

FROM THE CRITICS

Publishers Weekly