Author · United Kingdom · 1879–1970
E. M. Forster
Clear prose about connection, class, and the courage to say yes to life.
Edward Morgan Forster OM CH was an English fiction writer, essayist and librettist. Many of his novels examine class difference and hypocrisy. The last brought him his greatest success. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 16 separate years.
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He measures how people cross borders of class, nation, and desire. Kindness is treated as intelligence and irony protects truth rather than dodging it. Read him to examine hospitality, travel, and talk in a tense world, and to consider how private decency can scale to public life.
