D.H. Lawrence was an English author best known for his modernist novels, but he also wrote short stories and poetry. Lawerence taught and published in London until 1912 when he moved to Europe with Frieda Weekley, the wife of a former professor, who he eventually married in 1914. With the exception of a few years at the start of World War II, the couple lived abroad for the rest of their lives, as Frieda's German heritage and Lawerence's controversial novels and known anti-militaristic views caused them to be viewed with suspicion in England. D.H. Lawrence's novels, including Sons and Lovers, Women in Love, and Lady Chatterley's Lover were widely censored until well after his death in 1930. A landmark lawsuit against Penguin Books in England in 1960 failed to find the publisher guilty of breaking the Obscene Publications Act of 1959, changing the publication landscape for literary works containing explicit material.

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Widmer, Kingsley. "D. H. Lawrence (11 September 1885-2 March 1930)." In British Novelists, 1890-1929: Modernists, edited by Thomas F. Staley, 115-149. Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 36. Vol. 36. Detroit, MI: Gale, 1985.

Harry Thornton Moore was born in 1908 in Oakland, California. He was awarded Guggenheim fellowships for English Literature in 1958 and 1960. He published works on the lives and writings of D.H. Lawrence, Henry James, E.M. Foster, and John Steinbeck. He also wrote literary criticism for The New Republic. His works on Lawrence included a biography entitled Priest of Love (1954), which was the basis for a 1981 film; The Collected Letters of D.H. Lawrence (1962); and D.H. Lawrence and His World (1966). He died in Carbondale, Illinois in 1981.

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1910 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006.

"Fellows." John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation web site. Retrieved on 10 May 2021: https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/harry-t-moore/

"Harry Thornton Moore." WWII Draft Registration Cards for Illinois, 10/16/1940-03/31/1947; Record Group: Records of the Selective Service System, 147; Box: 1246, The National Archives in St. Louis, Missouri; St. Louis, Missour.