Forster (redirected from Forster, E. M.)

For·ster  (fôrstr), E(dward) M(organ) 1879-1970.

British writer whose novels, such as A Room with a View (1908) and Howards End (1910), explore the emotional and moral shortcomings of England's upper classes.

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Forster [ˈfɔːstə]

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(Biographies / Forster, E(dward) M(organ) (1879-1970) M, English, WRITING: novelist, WRITING: short-story writer, WRITING: essayist) E(dward) M(organ). 1879-1970, English novelist, short-story writer, and essayist. His best-known novels are A Room with a View (1908), Howard's End (1910), and A Passage to India (1924), in all of which he stresses the need for sincerity and sensitivity in human relationships and criticizes English middle-class values