E. M. Forster
English novelist (1879-1970) · United Kingdom · Writers · Died at 91
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Something wrong?Edward Morgan Forster was an English author. He is best known for his novels, particularly A Room with a View (1908), Howards End (1910) and A Passage to India (1924). He also wrote numerous short stories, essays, speeches and broadcasts, as well as biographies and pageant plays.
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Plaque and sundial at Rooks Nest in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, the childhood home remembered in Forster's novel Howards End.
A section of the main building, Tonbridge School
Forster circa 1917
The monument to Forster in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, near Rooks Nest where Forster grew up. He based the setting for his novel Howards End on this area, now informally known as Forster Country.![Forster and his mother stayed at Pensione Simi, which was located in Palazzo Jennings Riccioli, Florence, in 1901. Forster took inspiration from this stay for the Pension Bertolini in A Room with a View.[32]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/III_Palazzo_Jennings_Riccioli%2C_Firenze%2C_Italy_%282%29.jpg/1280px-III_Palazzo_Jennings_Riccioli%2C_Firenze%2C_Italy_%282%29.jpg)
Forster and his mother stayed at Pensione Simi, which was located in Palazzo Jennings Riccioli, Florence, in 1901. Forster took inspiration from this stay for the Pension Bertolini in A Room with a View.[32]Awards
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Edward Morgan Forster was an English author. He is best known for his novels, particularly A Room with a View (1908), Howards End (1910) and A Passage to India (1924). He also wrote numerous short stories, essays, speeches and broadcasts, as well as biographies and pageant plays. His short story "The Machine Stops" (1909) is often viewed as the beginning of technological dystopian fiction. He also co-authored the libretto to Benjamin Britten's opera Billy Budd (1951). Many of his novels examine class differences and hypocrisy. His views as a humanist are at the heart of his work.
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