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E. M. Forster

Edward Morgan Forster OM CH (1 January 1879 – 7 June 1970) was an English author, best known for his novels, particularly A Room with a View (1908), Howards End (1910) and A Passage to India (1924).

Not to be confused with E. M. Foster.

E. M. Forster

OM CH

Edward Morgan Forster
(1879-01-01)1 January 1879
Marylebone, Middlesex, England

7 June 1970(1970-06-07) (aged 91)
Coventry, Warwickshire, England

Writer (novels, short stories, essays)

King's College, Cambridge

1901–1970

Realism, symbolism, modernism

Class division, gender, imperialism, homosexuality

He also wrote numerous short stories, essays, speeches and broadcasts, as well as a limited number of biographies and some pageant plays. He also co-authored the opera Billy Budd (1951). Today, he is considered one of the most successful of the Edwardian era English novelists.


After attending Tonbridge School he studied history and classics at King's College, Cambridge, where he met fellow future writers such as Lytton Strachey and Leonard Woolf. He then travelled throughout Europe before publishing his first novel, Where Angels Fear to Tread, in 1905.


Many of his novels examine class difference and hypocrisy. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 22 separate years.[1][2]

(1966), dramatised for the BBC anthology series Out of the Unknown

The Machine Stops

(1984), dir. David Lean

A Passage to India

(1985), dir. James Ivory

A Room with a View

(1987), dir. James Ivory

Maurice

(1991), dir. Charles Sturridge

Where Angels Fear to Tread

(1992), dir. James Ivory

Howards End

(2017), BBC One miniseries, dir. Hettie MacDonald

Howards End

(2018), play by Matthew Lopez, adapted from Howards End, and featuring Forster as a character

The Inheritance

and Stephen Greenblatt, "E. M. Forster." The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. 2C, 7th Edition. New York: W. W. Norton, 2000: 2131–2140

M. H. Abrams

J. R. Ackerley, E. M. Forster: A Portrait (London: Ian McKelvie, 1970)

Parminder Kaur Bakshi, Distant Desire. Homoerotic Codes and the Subversion of the English Novel in E. M. Forster's Fiction (New York, 1996)

Nicola Beauman, Morgan (London, 1993)

Lawrence Brander, E. M. Forster. A critical study (London, 1968)

Rhythm in the Novel (University of Toronto Press, Canada, 1950)

E. K. Brown

Glen Cavaliero, A Reading of E.M. Forster (London, 1979)

S. M. Chanda, "A Passage to India: A Close Look" in A Collection of Critical Essays, New Delhi: Atlantic Publishers

Stuart Christie, Worlding Forster: The Passage from Pastoral (Routledge, 2005)

John Colmer, E. M. Forster – The personal voice (London, 1975)

E. M. Forster: The Perils of Humanism (Textbook Publishers, 2003)

Frederick Crews

E. M. Forster, ed. by Norman Page, Macmillan Modern Novelists (Houndmills, 1987)

E. M. Forster: The critical heritage, ed. by Philip Gardner (London, 1973)

Forster: A collection of Critical Essays, ed. by Malcolm Bradbury (New Jersey, 1966)

E. M. Forster, What I Believe, and other essays, Freethinker's Classics #3, ed. by Nicolas Walter (London, G. W. Foote & Co. Ltd, 1999 and 2016)

E.M. Forster: A Life (London, 1977–1978)

Furbank, P.N.

Michael Haag, Alexandria: City of Memory (London and New Haven, 2004). This portrait of Alexandria during the first half of the 20th century includes a biographical account of E. M. Forster, his life in the city, his relationship with , and his influence on Lawrence Durrell.

Constantine Cavafy

Judith Herz and Robert K. Martin, E. M. Forster: Centenary Revaluations (Macmillan Press, 1982)

Concerning E. M. Forster (London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2010)

Frank Kermode

E. M. Forster and his World (London, 1978).

Francis King

Mary Lago, Calendar of the Letters of E. M. Forster (London: Mansell, 1985)

Mary Lago, Selected Letters of E. M. Forster (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1983–1985)

Mary Lago, E. M. Forster: A Literary Life (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995)

Connecting with E. M. Forster: a memoir (Hesperus Press, 2012)

Tim Leggatt

Robin Jared Lewis, E. M. Forster's Passages to India (New York: Columbia University Press, 1979

John Sayre Martin, E. M. Forster. The endless journey (London, 1976)

Robert K. Martin and George Piggford, eds, Queer Forster (Chicago, 1997)

ed. "E. M. Forster", India in Mind: An Anthology. New York: Vintage Books, 2005: pp. 61–70

Pankaj Mishra

Wendy Moffat, E. M. Forster: A New Life (, 2010)

Bloomsbury

Peter Rose, "The Peculiar Charms of E. M. Forster", Australian Book Review (December 2010/January 2011). Forster in his social context

Retrieved 28 November 2013

Nicolas Royle, E. M. Forster (Writers & Their Work (London: Northcote House Publishers, 1999)

P. J. M. Scott, E. M. Forster: Our Permanent Contemporary, Critical Studies Series (London, 1984)

Sofia Sogos, "Nature and Mystery in Edward Morgan Forster's Tales", ed. Giorgia Sogos (Bonn: Free Pen Verlag, 2018)

Oliver Stallybrass, "Editor's Introduction", Howards End (Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin English Library, 1983)

Wilfred H. Stone, The Cave and the Mountain: a study of E. M. Forster (1964)

E. M. Forster (New York, 1983)

Claude J. Summers

(1943), E. M. Forster: A Study, Norfolk: New Directions

Trilling, Lionel

ed., E. M. Forster: A Tribute, With Selections from his Writings on India, Contributors: Ahmed Ali, Mulk Raj Anand, Narayana Menon, Raja Rao and Santha Rama Rau, (On Forster's Eighty Fifth Birthday), New York: Harcourt, Brace & World Inc., 1 January 1964

K. Natwar Singh

Kathleen Verduin, "Medievalism, Classicism, and the Fiction of E.M. Forster," Medievalism in the Modern World. Essays in Honour of , ed. Richard Utz and Tom Shippey (Turnhout: Brepols, 1998), pp. 263–286

Leslie J. Workman

Alan Wilde, Art and Order. A Study of E.M. Forster (New York, 1967)

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