E. M. Forster

Edward Morgan Forster was born in London on 1 January 1879. His father, an architect, died before Forster was two, and he was raised by his mother. After Tonbridge School he studied history and classics at King's College, Cambridge, where he met future writers such as Lytton Strachey and Leonard Woolf. After travelling in Europe he published his first novel, Where Angels Fear to Tread, in 1905, followed by The Longest Journey (1907), A Room with a View (1908) and Howards End (1910). During the First World War he served with the British Red Cross in Alexandria, Egypt, searching for missing servicemen, and in the early 1920s he worked in India as private secretary to the Maharajah of Dewas. A Passage to India (1924) was the last novel published in his lifetime. In 1927 he gave the Clark Lectures at Trinity College, Cambridge, published as Aspects of the Novel. He later lived at King's College as an honorary fellow and died in Coventry in 1970.

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Faith: Brought up partly by his father's strongly evangelical family; as an adult he was a humanist, publicly associated with the British Humanist Association, and set out his outlook in the essay What I Believe (1938). Source: Wikipedia