Born the son of a Nottinghamshire coal miner, D. H. Lawrence is one of the premier novelists of the 20th century. He wrote many novels including Sons and Lovers  (1913), The  Rainbow  (1915), Women in Love  (1920), and the controversial Lady Chatterly’s Lover  (1928). Voluntary exiles from England, he and his wife, Freda, travelled widely. Lawrence also wrote travel books, numerous short stories and several volumes of poems.