T. E. Lawrence

Stephen Tabachnick (University of Memphis)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 6.1.3: Middle-Eastern Arabic Writing and Culture: Modern and Contemporary.
Vol. editors: Ziad Elmarsafy (King's College London), Joseph Farag (University of Minnesota), Claire Gallien (Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3), Nora Parr (SOAS, University of London), Rita Sakr (Maynooth University), Anastasia Valassopoulos (University of Manchester)

Dates

Born 16 Aug 1888
Died 19 May 1935
Activity 1910-1935

Places

Born in England
Active in Asia - Southwest; England

Activities

Primary

Autobiographer

Other

Historian / Chronicler
Poet

Resources

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Thomas Edward Lawrence was a brilliant polymath: he was an archaeologist before World War I, and during the war he became a map-maker, intelligence agent and leader of Bedouin and Arab insurgent forces against the Turks, developing and applying a powerful guerrilla warfare strategy. From 1919-1926, while serving as diplomat at the post-war Paris Conference and in the Colonial Office under Winston Churchill (who became a friend and admirer), and then in the Royal Air Force and the Tank Corps, Lawrence wrote several drafts of his memoir of the war,

Seven Pillars of Wisdom

(1926), which is now regarded as one of the masterpieces of twentieth century British autobiographical writing. Praised by Hardy, Forster, Shaw and Churchill,

Seven Pillars of Wisdom

has never been out of print since it…

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Citation: Tabachnick, Stephen. "T. E. Lawrence". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 23 June 2008 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=2643, accessed 20 April 2024.]

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