In a 1969 essay, Elizabeth Hardwick described the worst kind of literary biography: the overstuffed, underthought tome whose claim to authority rests solely upon the accumulation of facts. In such ...

There was a time I would rather have endured minor surgery than read a 400-page biography of D.H. Lawrence, whose misogyny is canon. “The one vile man I have ever known,” wrote Virginia Woolf. When ...

D.H. Lawrence had a flair for offending people. It wasn’t just the explicit content of books like “Sons and Lovers” and “Lady Chatterley’s Lover.” He turned friends into enemies, and his enthusiasm ...