Frances Wilson.
FRANCES WILSON
BURNING MAN: THE TRIALS OF D.H.LAWRENCE (2021)
Winner of the Plutarch Award, 2022.
A Book of the Year at the Times, Guardian, Spectator, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman and Times Literary Supplement.
D.H.Lawrence (born 1885) was an English novelist, playwright, critic, poet and painter. Writing of of sexuality and instinct, he is one of the most notable novelists of his period.
Several of his novels, including Sons and Lovers and Lady Chatterley’s Lover, led to celebrated censorship trials for their use of explicit language. A controversial and persecuted figure during his life, he became fully recognised only after his death.
In its review of the book, the New Statesman wrote: ‘Not only does Frances Wilson revive her subject, she lifts the whole genre. Biography of this calibre is rare ... Our most original biographer.’ The Observer wrote: ‘Sometimes ecstatic and sometimes shrill, it brings Lawrence alive in all his derangement: his ridiculousness as well as his glory; his perspicacity and his blindness.’
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Frances Wilson (born 1964) read English at Oxford University, and took her DPhil on Henry James and Freud at Sussex University. She taught English Literature at Reading University for ten years before in 2005 becoming a full time writer. The author of several biographies, she writes reviews for several publications including the Times Literary Supplement.
