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Carl Hindrik Sven Rudolphsson Lidman —military officer, poet, writer, and preacher, grandson of the priest Sven Lidman—was born in Karlskrona, became a sublieutenant in the Swedish royal army reserve in 1903, and studied law at Uppsala University. He then began a promising career as a celebrated poet with Pasiphaë, Primavera, Källorna, and Elden och altaret. He also wrote the dramas Imperia and Härskare, before starting to write novels: Stensborg, Thure Gabriel Silfverstååhl, Carl Silfverstååhls upplevelser, Köpmän och krigare, Tvedräktens barn, and Det levande fäderneshuset. In 1917 he went through a religious revival, which came out in his novels Huset med de gamla fröknarna, Såsom genom eld, Bryggan håller, and Personlig frälsning. In 1921 he joined the fast-growing Swedish Pentecostal movement, became the editor of its magazine Evangelii Härold, and was considered the movement's second-leading person next to founder Lewi Pethrus.
Lidman's autobiography was published in four parts: Gossen i grottan, Lågan och lindansaren, Mandoms möda, and Vällust och vedergällning. A biography was written by Knut Ahnlund, Sven Lidman: ett livsdrama. Biographic and historic details also appear in Per Olov Enquist's 2001 novel Lewis Resa, and in autobiographies by the younger Sven Lidman.
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