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E. M.
Known for clear-eyed, deeply human novels like A Room with a View and Howards End, this English writer explored class, love, friendship, and the struggle to connect across social divides. His work blends wit and tenderness with a sharp sense of how people can misunderstand one another.
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About the author
Born Edward Morgan Forster in London in 1879, he studied at King's College, Cambridge, and became one of the most admired English novelists of the early 20th century. Four of his major novels appeared before World War I, including Where Angels Fear to Tread, A Room with a View, and Howards End.
He is especially remembered for fiction that brings together social comedy and moral seriousness. His best-known books look closely at class, convention, intimacy, and personal freedom, and his novel A Passage to India became one of the defining works of his career.
Forster lived until 1970 and also wrote essays, criticism, short stories, and broadcasts. Readers still return to his work for its warmth, intelligence, and memorable insistence that people try, however imperfectly, to truly connect.