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.-Boston College