Burning Man

The Ascent of DH Lawrence

By: Frances Wilson

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eBook | 27 May 2021

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Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-fiction 2021
Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize 2021
Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize
Finalist for the 2022 Plutarch Award

D. H. Lawrence is no longer censored, but he is still on trial – and we are still unsure what the verdict should be.

Delving into the memoirs of those who both loved and hated him most, Burning Man follows Lawrence from the peninsular underworld of Cornwall in 1915 to post-war Italy to the mountains of New Mexico, and traces the author's footsteps through the pages of his lesser known work. Wilson presents a complex, courageous and often comic fugitive, careering around a world in the grip of apocalypse, in search of utopia; and, in bringing the true Lawrence into sharp focus, shows how he speaks to us now more than ever.

'A work of art in its own right' Observer
'Utterly enthralling' Geoff Dyer
'Brilliantly unconventional' Richard Holmes
'A red-hot, propulsive book' The Times

About the Author

Frances Wilson is a critic, journalist and the author of three works of non-fiction, Literary Seductions, The Courtesan's Revenge and The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth, which won the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize in 2009. She lives in London with her daughter.