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E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster (1879–1970) was an English writer best known for his critical views of the established class system. He was named Henry at birth, but a mistake at his baptism led to him being given his father's name, Edward, instead. As a result, he was generally called Morgan. His six published novels have all been adapted for film. He also wrote a number of short stories, a couple of plays, a couple of biographies, a film script, numerous essays, and the libretto for Benjamin Britten's adaption of Creator/HermanMelville's ''Theatre/BillyBudd''. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature sixteen different times.

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E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster [[UsefulNotes/KnightFever OM]] (1879–1970) was an English writer best known for his critical views of the established class system. He was named Henry at birth, but a mistake at his baptism led to him being given his father's name, Edward, instead. As a result, he was generally called Morgan. His six published novels have all been adapted for film. He also wrote a number of short stories, a couple of plays, a couple of biographies, a film script, numerous essays, and the libretto for Benjamin Britten's adaption of Creator/HermanMelville's ''Theatre/BillyBudd''. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature sixteen different times.
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E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster (1879–1970) was an English writer best known for his critical views of the established class system. He was named Henry at birth, but a mistake at his baptism led to him being given his father's name, Edward, instead. As a result, he was generally called Morgan. His six published novels have all been adapted for film. He also wrote a number of short stories, a couple of plays, a couple of biographies, a film script, numerous essays, and the libretto for Benjamin Britten's adaption of Creator/HermanMelville's ''Theatre/BillyBudd''. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature sixteen different times.

His most successful novel during his lifetime was his last, ''Literature/APassageToIndia'' (1924). His most popular today is probably the relatively light-hearted ''Literature/ARoomWithAView''. His novel ''Literature/{{Maurice}}'', written in the mid-1910s, wasn't published until after his death, for it was a homosexual love story, and Forster's own homosexuality was still illegal in the UK for most of his life.
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!! Works by E. M. Forster with a page on this wiki:
[[index]]
* ''Theatre/BillyBudd''
* ''Literature/HowardsEnd''
* "Literature/TheMachineStops" (novella)
* ''Literature/{{Maurice}}''
* ''Literature/APassageToIndia''
* ''Literature/ARoomWithAView''
* ''Literature/WhereAngelsFearToTread''
[[/index]]

!! Selected other works by Forster:
* ''Abinger Pageant'' (play)
* ''The Celestial Omnibus (and Other Stories)'' (collection)
* ''England's Pleasant Land'' (play)
* ''The Eternal Moment and Other Stories'' (collection)
* ''The Longest Journey'' (novel)
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