Forster, E. M.: 1879-1970
Information about E. M. Forster
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- Full name: Edward Morgan Forster
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- Biography and Works
- Brief biography read by Garrison Keillor. Can be used as listening comprehension exercise
- TranscriptIt's the birthday of E.M. Forster, the novelist born in London, 1879. He published A Room with a View and Howards End. And then wrote nothing for 14 years, while he worked for the Red Cross in Egypt during World War I and traveled to India. In 1924 he published A Passage to India, which many consider his masterpiece and though he lived for almost 50 more years, he never published another novel.
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- Damon Galgut talks about his new novel, Arctic Summer, a fictionalized biography of English author E. M. Forster. The story focuses on Forster's many years in India and the process of writing his masterpiece, A Passage to India, and delves into Forster's unforgiving childhood in England and the homosexuality he feared and repressed throughout his life. WNYC Radio, New York; September 30, 2014
- Obituary. BBC