D. H. Lawrence
English novelist and poet, a recurring touchstone in Mailer's thinking on sex and the body; Mailer defends him at length against Kate Millett's critique in The Prisoner of Sex (1971).
D. H. Lawrence was an English novelist and poet whose treatment of sex and the body Mailer took as a lasting touchstone. In The Prisoner of Sex (1971) Mailer defends Lawrence against Kate Millett‘s Sexual Politics, writing — as Anatole Broyard‘s review noted — that Lawrence “wrote more sensitively about women than any woman.”