Author: E. M. Forster
Alternate names: Edward Morgan Forster; Edward M. Forster; Forster E. M
Born: 1 January 1879
Died: 7 June 1970
Bio: Edward Morgan Forster OM, CH, 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 and also the attitudes towards gender and homosexuality in early 20th-century British society. Forster's humanistic impulse toward understanding and sympathy may be aptly summed up in the epigraph to his 1910 novel Howards End: "Only connect".