Richard Aldington: Biographer of Lawrence of Arabia

Steve Newman Writer
6 min readMar 27, 2021

“Aldington’s style as a biographer is often hard edged and, at times, unsympathetic, not least in his now infamous 1955, Lawrence of Arabia: A Biographical Enquiry, a book that caused a major literary, sexual, paternal and historical whirlwind…”

Richard Aldington. Image: mypoeticside.com

Richard Aldington, English novelist, poet, and biographer of T. E. Lawrence, and friend of D. H. Lawrence, is a name that probably…

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