E M Forster

E. M. Forster (1879–1970) was famed for his novels A Room with a View, Howards End and A Passage to India. Although he lived until he was 91, he wrote all his six novels before the age of 45. He was educated at King’s College, Cambridge, where he took part in the learned philosophical discussions of the Apostles (a student discussion group) many of whose members went on to be part of the Bloomsbury Group, as did Forster. Edward Morgan Forster was born in London, the son of an architect who died when his son was only a year old. He continued to live with his mother until she died in 1945. Although he was never open about his homosexuality in public, in death Forster’s ashes were mingled with those of one of his long-time lovers.