The World Broke in Two: Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, D.H. Lawrence, E.M. Forster, and the Year That Changed Literature

A revelatory narrative of the intersecting lives and works of four revered authors during 1922, the birth year of modernism.

A Lambda Literary Awards Finalist

Named a Best Book by NPR's Book Concierge

The World Broke in Two tells the fascinating story of the intellectual and personal journeys four legendary writers—Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster, and D. H. Lawrence—make over the course of one pivotal year. As 1922 begins, all four are literally at a loss for words, confronting an u...