[1] "The sharp decline in Forster's output has always mystified historians, but now a dossier of his private papers has revealed how growing personal contentment stunted his literary drive... After suppressing his sexuality as a young man, Forster, who was known to his friends as Morgan, lost his virginity to a wounded soldier in 1917 while working for the Red Cross in Egypt. That sexual awakening in his late 30s led to a series of romances with working class men including a tram conductor and two policemen." Matthew Moore, EM Forster 'turned against novels after losing his virginity', Telegraph, 6 June 2010.
Father: (architect, d. 1880 consumption)
High School: Tonbridge School, Kent, England
University: King's College, Cambridge University
Is the subject of books:
E. M. Forster, 1943, BY: Lionel Trilling
A Bibliography of E. M. Forster, 1986, BY: Brownlee Jean Kirkpatrick
E. M. Forster, A Life, 1977-8, BY: B. N. Furbank, DETAILS: (2 vols.)
Author of books:
Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905, novel)
The Longest Journey (1907, novel)
A Room With a View (1908, novel)
Howards End (1910, novel)
The Celestial Omnibus (1914, anthology)
A Passage to India (1924, novel)
The Eternal Moment (1928, anthology)
Maurice (1971, posthumous, written in 1913-14, homosexual content)
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