E.M Forster (1 January 1879 – 7 June 1970)
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 was born into an Anglo-Irish and Welsh middle-class family in London. He was the only child of Alice Clara ``Lily`` 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. He inherited £659,300 from his paternal great-aunt Marianne Thornton. The money was enough to live on and enabled him to become a writer. Forster had five novels published in his lifetime. Although ``Maurice`` was published shortly after his death, it had been written nearly sixty years earlier, and he never finished his seventh novel, Arctic Summer. A Room with a View , is his lightest and most optimistic novel, it also shows how questions of propriety and class can make human connection difficult.
Forster was born into an Anglo-Irish and Welsh middle-class family in London. He was the only child of Alice Clara ``Lily`` 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. He inherited £659,300 from his paternal great-aunt Marianne Thornton. The money was enough to live on and enabled him to become a writer. Forster had five novels published in his lifetime. Although ``Maurice`` was published shortly after his death, it had been written nearly sixty years earlier, and he never finished his seventh novel, Arctic Summer. A Room with a View , is his lightest and most optimistic novel, it also shows how questions of propriety and class can make human connection difficult.