Barry J. Scherr is an independent scholar who (according to Harold Bloom) « promises to be one of the leading post-Leavis Lawrence critics and scholars. He received his Ph.D. in English from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Dr. Scherr is the author of D. H. Lawrence's Response to Plato: A Bloomian Interpretation (Peter Lang, 1996). He has published a dozen articles on Lawrence, and he has taught at many major American colleges and universities, among them SUNY-Buffalo, Brooklyn College (CUNY), and Rutgers University.