Forster, E. M.: 1879-1970

Information about E. M. Forster

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General Information
- Information from Wikipedia
- Information from Britannica
Facts
- Full name: Edward Morgan Forster
- Biography and Works
- Video (50:56)
  E.M. Forster documentary
- Brief biography read by Garrison Keillor. Can be used as listening comprehension exercise
  - Transcript
    It's the birthday of E.M. Forster, the novelist born in London, 1879. He published A Room with a View and Howards End. And then wrote nothing for 14 years, while he worked for the Red Cross in Egypt during World War I and traveled to India. In 1924 he published A Passage to India, which many consider his masterpiece and though he lived for almost 50 more years, he never published another novel.
- Bibliography
Articles
- Damon Galgut talks about his new novel, Arctic Summer, a fictionalized biography of English author E. M. Forster. The story focuses on Forster's many years in India and the process of writing his masterpiece, A Passage to India, and delves into Forster's unforgiving childhood in England and the homosexuality he feared and repressed throughout his life. WNYC Radio, New York; September 30, 2014
- Julian Barnes: I was wrong about EM Forster: "There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy; it is not the bad taste of a country which knows no better; it has not the nervous vulgarity of England, or the blinded vulgarity of Germany. It observes beauty." The Guardian; December 2, 2016
- Childhood home of EM Forster and inspiration for the country house goes on sale. The author lived at the property between the ages of four and 14, and referenced it in his 1910 novel "Howards End."
Obituary
- Obituary. BBC