E. M. Forster Edward Morgan Forster
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E.M. Forster published A Passage to India in 1924 and stopped writing novels that same year. He withheld his novel Maurice from publication during his lifetime because of its homosexual content. After his death, three of his novels were adapted into Best Picture Oscar nominees: A Passage to India 1984, A Room with a View 1986, Howards End 1992.
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E.M. Forster was born in London on 1 January 1879, the only child of Alice Clara Whichelo and Edward Morgan Llewellyn Forster. His father died when Forster was young. He studied at Tonbridge School in Kent before reading classics and history at King’s College, Cambridge.
Forster published A Room with a View in 1908 and Howards End in 1910. His novel A Passage to India was published in 1924, after which he stopped writing novels. He wrote the libretto for Benjamin Britten’s opera Billy Budd. His novel Maurice, completed before World War I, was published posthumously in 1971.
Forster never married and did not publicly acknowledge his homosexuality. His novel Maurice, written before World War I, was published only after his death due to its homosexual theme. He focused his energy on writing and literary criticism.
Three film adaptations of Forster’s novels were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture: A Passage to India 1984, A Room with a View 1986, and Howards End 1992. In 2000, the E.M. Forster Theatre opened at Tonbridge School, where he had studied. He received the Order of the Companions of Honour in 1953 and the Order of Merit in 1969.
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One Always Tends to Overpraise a Long Book Because One Has Got Through It.
Although My Mother Has Been Intermittently Tiresome for the Last 30 Years, Cramped and Warped My Genius, Hindered My Career, Blocked and Buggered up My House, and Boycotted My Beloved, I Have to Admit She Has Provided a Sort of Rich Subsoil Where I Have Been Able to Rest and Grow.
Oh, Yes, Indeed, the Novel Tells a Story.
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Written before World War I, Forster’s novel Maurice was withheld from publication until after his death due to its homosexual theme.
Forster attended Tonbridge School in Kent, where the E.M. Forster Theatre opened in 2000.
Forster stopped writing novels in 1924 after publishing A Passage to India. He also wrote short stories, essays, and criticism, and wrote the libretto for Benjamin Britten’s opera Billy Budd.
Three film adaptations of Forster’s novels have been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture: A Passage to India 1984, A Room with a View 1986, and Howards End 1992.
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