E. M. Forster

Edward Morgan Forster OM, CH (1 January 1879 – 7 June 1970) was an English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist. He is known best for his ironic and well-plotted novels examining class difference and hypocrisy in early 20th-century British society. Forster's humanistic impulse toward understanding and sympathy may be aptly summed up in the epigraph to his 1910 novel Howards End: "Only connect." Forster was born into an Anglo-Iris... More

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  • Jan 1, 1879

Date of death:

  • Jun 7, 1970 (age 91 years)

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Also known as:

  • E.M. Forster,
  • Edward Morgan Forster,
  • E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster
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