E. M. FORSTER

A Room with a View

Edward Morgan Forster was an novelist,

essayist, and short story writer. He is known

best for his ironic and well-plotted novels

examining class difference and hypocrisy in

early 20th-century British society.

His humanistic impulse toward understanding

and sympathy may be summed up in the

epigraph to his 1910 novel Howards End:

"Only connect".

He had five novels published in his lifetime,

achieving his greatest success with

A Passage to India (1924) which takes as its

subject the relationship between East and

West, seen through the lens of India in the

later days of the British Raj.

Forster's views as a secular humanist are at

the heart of his work, which often depicts the pursuit of personal connections in spite of the restrictions of contemporary society. His other works include Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905), The Longest Journey (1907), A Room with a View (1908) and Maurice (1971), his posthumously published novel which tells of the coming of age of an explicitly gay male character.

Born in London,

January 01, 1879

Died on

June 07, 1970