“I want
to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.” – D.H. Lawrence
Born in
England on Sept. 11, 1885 David Herbert Lawrence said he had few regrets from
his writing life, especially after rising from poverty as the son of nearly illiterate parents
to become one of the best-known writers of the 20th Century.
Lawrence
earned both renown and condemnation for such novels as Sons and
Lovers, Women in Love, and Lady Chatterley's Lover but
also was lauded for his striking poetry and thoughtful short stories. Away from the creative writing side, he penned many essays and countless
letters, many gathered into several published volumes.
Among his
most praised collections of short stories are The Prussian Officer and
Other Stories, and The Woman Who Rode Away and Other Stories,
both massive best sellers. Constantly at odds with British authorities and
critics, he decided to travel and live around the globe, including time at the Kiowa
Ranch in New Mexico where his ashes are interred and a memorial stands in his
name.
“I can
never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts,“ he mused shortly
before his death from tuberculosis at age 44, “or my thoughts are the result of my
dreams.”
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