E.M. Forster author page

E.M. Forster biography

E.M. Forster was an English novelist, essayist and critic. He studied at King’s College, Cambridge, and became known for his novels examining class, social conventions and human connection.

Forster’s works include A Room with a View (1908), Howards End (1910) and A Passage to India (1924). Though he did not primarily write for children, his novel The Machine Stops (1909), a dystopian short story, has often been taught to older students for its exploration of technology and society. A Passage to India won both the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Femina Vie Heureuse Prize in 1924.

He was elected a Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge in 1946 and was made a Companion of Honour in 1953. A Passage to India received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1924.