John Worthen, Date of Birth

    

John Worthen

English academic

Date of Birth: 07-Jun-1943

Profession: biographer, literary critic

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About John Worthen

  • John Worthen taught at universities in North America and Wales before becoming Professor of D.
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  • Lawrence Studies at the University of Nottingham, where he remains Emeritus Professor.
  • His inaugural lecture as Professor of D H Lawrence Studies was published under the title Cold Hearts and Coronets His career as Lawrence’s biographer began in the 1980s and culminated in the celebrated D.
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  • Lawrence: The Early Years 1885–1912, the first part of the definitive three-volume Cambridge biography (Cambridge University Press, 1991–8).
  • Material from this project later formed the foundation of Worthen's single volume study, D.
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  • Lawrence: The Life of an Outsider (2005). Though based in Lawrence’s hometown of Nottingham, he has researched and travelled around the world to complete this portrait of the writer.
  • In 2001 he published a group biography of the Wordsworth-Coleridge circle entitled 'The Gang: Wordsworth, Coleridge and the Hutchinsons in 1802'; in 2007 he published a life of the musician Robert Schumann and since then has completed a short biography of T.
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  • Eliot (2009), an 'Introduction to Samuel Taylor Coleridge' for Cambridge University Press (2011), a volume of unpublished lectures on D.
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  • Lawrence entitled 'Experiments' (2012) and a biography of William Wordsworth (2014).
  • His most recent biography, of Percy Bysshe Shelley, will be published in 2019. In addition to this biographical work, Professor Worthen has edited or co-edited seven individual volumes in The Cambridge Edition of the Letters and Works of D.
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  • Lawrence series and is a member of the editorial board of the Edition.

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