E.M. Forster
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E. M. Forster, by Dora Carrington c. 1924–1925
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| Born | Edward Morgan Forster 1 January 1879 Marylebone, Middlesex, England |
| Died | 7 June 1970 (aged 91) Coventry, Warwickshire, England |
| Occupation | Writer (novels, short stories, essays) |
| Nationality | English |
| Education | Tonbridge School |
| Alma mater | King's College, Cambridge |
| Period | 1901–70 |
| Genre | Realism, symbolism, modernism |
| Subject | Class division, gender, homosexuality |
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Edward Morgan Forster OM CH (1 January 1879 – 7 June 1970), known by his pen name E. M. Forster, 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 ... ". His 1908 novel, A Room with a View, is his most optimistic work, while A Passage to India (1924) brought him his greatest success. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 16 different years.
Forster was born into an Anglo-Irish and Welsh middle-class family at 6 Melcombe Place, Dorset Square, London NW1, in a building that no longer exists. He was the only child of Alice Clara "Lily" (née Whichelo) and Edward Morgan Llewellyn Forster, an architect. His name was officially registered as Henry Morgan Forster, but at his baptism he was accidentally named Edward Morgan Forster. To distinguish him from his father, he was always called Morgan. His father died of tuberculosis on 30 October 1880, before Morgan's second birthday. In 1883, Forster and his mother moved to Rooksnest, near Stevenage, Herfordshire. This house served as a model for Howard's End, because he has fond memories of his childhood there. Among Forster's ancestors were members of the Clapham Sect, a social reform group within the Church of England.
He inherited £8,000 (£802,290 as of 2015; £1,735,000 in terms of gold sovereigns [1883 tr.oz.]) from his paternal great-aunt Marianne Thornton (daughter of the abolitionist Henry Thornton), who died on 5 November 1887. The money was enough to live on and enabled him to become a writer. He attended Tonbridge School in Kent, as a day boy. The theatre at the school has been named in his honour.
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