E. M. Forster

Edward Morgan Forster (January 1, 1879 - June 7, 1970) was an English novelist, short story writer, and essayist.

Life

Born in London, the son of an architect, he was to have been named Henry but was baptised Edward by accident. He attended Tonbridge School in Kent. At King's College, Cambridge in 1901, he became involved with a group known as the Apostles (formally named the Cambridge Conversazione Society). Many of its members went on to constitute what came to be known as the Bloomsbury group. Forster also associated with Siegfried Sassoon, J. R. Ackerley, and Forrest Reid. He travelled in Egypt, Germany and India with classicist G.L. Dickinson in 1914. He died in Coventry. Forster's two most noted works, A Passage to India and Howards End, explore the irreconcilability of class differences. His Maurice, unpublished during his lifetime, explores the possibility of reconciling class differences as part of a homosexual relationship.

Related Topics:
London - Tonbridge School - Kent - King's College, Cambridge - 1901 - Apostles - Bloomsbury group - Siegfried Sassoon - J. R. Ackerley - Forrest Reid - G.L. Dickinson - Coventry - A Passage to India - Howards End - Maurice

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