In this award-winning biography, Brenda Maddox gives us a completely new view of D. H. Lawrence - not the bearded prophet with baleful eye, but a likeable Lawrence: hilarious mimic, inspired teacher, ecological visionary and - as he saw himself - a married man. Examining Lawrence's complx life through its greatest contradiciton - his marriage to Frieda von Richtofen, the baron's daughter - Maddox presents a fascinating portrait of this remarkable author.