A Passage to India

About E M Forster

Edward Morgan Forster was born in London in 1879 attended Tonbridge School and went on to King`s College Cambridge in 1897 where he retained a lifelong connection and was elected to an Honorary Fellowship in 1946.Forster wrote six novels. Where Angels Fear to Tread `1905` The Longest Journey `1907` A Room with a View `1908` and Howards End `1910` were all published before the First World War. Fourteen years passed before the publication of Forster`s most famous work A Passage to India in 1924. Maurice his novel on a homosexual theme which he competed in 1914 was published posthumously in 1971. His other works include essays biographies short stories plays and a critical work Aspects of the Novel as the libretto for Britten`s opera Billy Budd. E.M. Forster died in June 1970.