Richard Aldington was a prominent early 20th century British writer who made significant contributions in several areas: he was a founding poet of the Imagist movement, wrote novels about World War I, and produced critical and biographical works. Aldington had a conventional start in London as a journalist but became disillusioned after his experience in WWI, leading him to relocate to France and live as an expatriate writer. Though he saw his novels as his most important work, he received recognition primarily for his biographies of contemporaries like T.E. Lawrence and D.H. Lawrence.