Laurence DAVID GERBERT is one of the key English writers of the early 20th century. In the psychological novels The Sons and Lovers (1913), The Rainbow (1915), The Enamored Women (1920), he urged contemporaries to reveal themselves to the "dark gods" of the instinctive perception of nature, emotionality and sexuality. Maturity and wisdom, according to Lawrence, mean a rejection of rationalism so characteristic of the nineteenth century. Besides novels, Lawrence also wrote essays, poems, plays, notes about his travels and stories. Some books by Lawrence, including the novel "Lady Chatterley's Lover," were for a long time forbidden to publish because of obscenity.

 The main motive of poetic creativity of Lawrence is the rejection of the dehumanizing influence of industrial society and a return to the naturalness and spontaneity of life. Lawrence David Herbert was born September 11, 1885 in the Eastwood settlement (Nottinghamshire county). David Herbert Lawrence was the fourth child in the family of a miner and a former schoolteacher. His turbulent relationship with a violent father and passionate affection for a sophisticated, socially ambitious mother in many influenced his subsequent work. In 1898, David Herbert Lawrence received a scholarship to the Nottingham High School, and in 1906 - a teacher education at Nottingham University. He taught at Croydon Elementary School and began to write poetry and stories. Then he began working on the novel, and in 1909 sent several poems to the magazine "English Review", edited by FM Ford. Ford published poems and several short stories by Lawrence, helped to print the novel The White Peacock (The White Peacock, 1911) and introduced Lawrence to the capital's literary circles. At this time, Lawrence was already working on a second novel, The Breaker (The Trespasser, 1912), and the first version of Sons and Lovers. The death of the mother from cancer in December 1910 deeply shocked the writer. His own bad health forced him to leave the teaching and concentrate entirely on literary work. In the spring of 1912 Lawrence fled to Europe with Frida Weekly (nee von Richthofen), wife of Nottingham Professor E. Wickley. In 1913 he published the first collection of his poems and the novel Sons and Lovers. At that time, he began working on a novel called The Sisters, which later broke up into the Rainbow (1915) and Women in Love (1920). In 1914, the first collection of short stories by Lawrence Prussian officer (The Prussian Officer) was published. After the entry of England into the war, the Lawrence was closed out of the country. The rainbow was banned immediately after publication in 1915, and for Lovers, Lawrence could not find a publisher at all (the novel was printed at the expense of the author in New York in 1920). In 1919, Lawrence left England and from then only occasionally visited his homeland. He travels to Italy, Sicily, Ceylon, Australia, comes to the USA (where he lives on a ranch near Taos, New Mexico), visits Mexico. He frenziedly works in the most difficult conditions, overcoming the disease; Out of his pen are the novels The Lost Girl (1920), Aaron's Rod (1922), Kangaroo (1923) and The Plumed Serpent (1926), several essay collections, many stories and poems published by Lawrence, Psychoanalysis and Unconscious (1921) and Fantasia of Unconscious (1922) opened access to his worldview.In 1926 he completed the first of three versions of Lady Chatterley's Lover ) and in 1928 issued a private subscription to the final text of the novel. In 1929, on charges of obscenity, police authorities closed the exhibition of paintings by Lawrence in London. Lawrence died in the south of France, in Vence, March 2, 1930.