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Edward Morgan Forster was an English author. He is best known for his novels, particularly A Room with a View (1908), Howards End (1910) and A Passage to India (1924). He also wrote numerous short stories, essays, speeches and broadcasts, as well as biographies and pageant plays. His short story "The Machine Stops" (1909) is often viewed as the beginning of technological dystopian fiction. He also…
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culture · English novelist and writer (1879–1970) · writer · novelist · screenwriter · literary critic · biographer · science fiction writer · librettist · essayist · philologist · journalist · also E. M. Forster, EM Forster, E Forster, Edward Morgan Forster, Edward Forster, Forster
Born 1 January 1879 · Died 7 June 1970 · Q189119
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Although my mother has been intermittently tiresome for the last 30 years, cramped and warped my genius, hindered my career, blocked and buggered up my house, and boycotted my beloved, I have to admit she has provided a sort of rich subsoil where I have been able to rest and grow. That, rather than sex or wifiness, seems to be women
It is not my policy, even were it within my power, to break up homes.
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“Although my mother has been intermittently tiresome for the last 30 years, cramped and warped my genius, hindered my career, blocked and buggered up my house, and boycotted my beloved, I have to admit she has provided a sort of rich subsoil where I have been able to rest and grow. That, rather than sex or wifiness, seems to be women”
“It is not my policy, even were it within my power, to break up homes.”
“all too liable to be found in the lives of normal boys … Since women could not be excluded they had to be admitted ... the Ideal Friend could have a girl or wife if he wished, so long as she did not interfere with me. No wife ever failed to interfere with me.”
“The Raison d'Etre of Criticism in the Arts”
The Guardian: Maurice by EM Forster audiobook review – Ben Whishaw narrates a groundbreaking gay novel
NPR: 'Greenland' revives E.M. Forster — and spins a tale of racism and self-discovery
bleedingcool: The Machine Stops: E.M. Forster Story Anticipated Our Lockdown Life
The Guardian: How EM Forster saw the lockdown coming | Brief letters
Published “Antiinflammatory Therapy with Canakinumab for Atherosclerotic Disease” in New England Journal of Medicine — cited 8,664 times.
Published “Tracking the Evolution of Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer” in New England Journal of Medicine — cited 2,066 times.
Published “Redefine statistical significance” in Nature Human Behaviour — cited 2,140 times.
Published “THE<i>NUCLEAR SPECTROSCOPIC TELESCOPE ARRAY</i>(<i>NuSTAR</i>) HIGH-ENERGY X-RAY MISSION” in The Astrophysical Journal — cited 2,027 times.
Published “Bounding the role of black carbon in the climate system: A scientific assessment” in Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres — cited 5,296 times.
Tim Leggatt, who had known Forster for his last 15 years, wrote a memoir based on unpublished correspondence with him over those years
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Published “A Modification of the Elixhauser Comorbidity Measures Into a Point System for Hospital Death Using Administrative Data” in Medical Care — cited 2,017 times.
Published “The management of respiratory motion in radiation oncology report of AAPM Task Group 76a)” in Medical Physics — cited 2,021 times.
Published “Lapatinib plus Capecitabine for HER2-Positive Advanced Breast Cancer” in New England Journal of Medicine — cited 2,801 times.
Published “The<i>Galaxy Evolution Explorer</i>: A Space Ultraviolet Survey Mission” in The Astrophysical Journal — cited 2,211 times.
Published “<i>LMO2</i> -Associated Clonal T Cell Proliferation in Two Patients after Gene Therapy for SCID-X1” in Science — cited 3,034 times.
Published “Median-joining networks for inferring intraspecific phylogenies” in Molecular Biology and Evolution — cited 9,992 times.
Published “Structure of Graphite Oxide Revisited” in The Journal of Physical Chemistry B — cited 3,271 times.
By the Merchant-Ivory team, starring Vanessa Redgrave, Emma Thompson, Anthony Hopkins, and Helena Bonham-Carter
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By the Merchant Ivory team, starring Helena Bonham Carter, Maggie Smith, Julian Sands, Denholm Elliott and Daniel Day-Lewis, and as a televised adaptation of the same name in 2007 by Andrew Davies
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Died 1970-06-07.
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“Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.”
Awarded Order of Merit (1969).
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Was made a member of the Order of Merit on his 90th birthday
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Was one of the first five authors named as a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature
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Directed by Frank Hauser, and as a film in 1984, directed by David Lean, starring Alec Guinness, Judy Davis and Peggy Ashcroft, with the latter winning the 1985 Oscar for Best Supporting Actress
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Forster began a relationship with the Bulgarian émigré Mattei Radev, a picture framer and art collector who moved in Bloomsbury group circles
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Awarded Honorary doctor of Leiden University (1954).
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Awarded Order of the Companions of Honour (1953).
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And in 1961 he was one of the first five authors named as a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature
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Forster openly advocated in The New Statesman and Nation for a change in the law in regard to homosexuality (which would be legalised in England and Wales in 1967, three years prior to his death), arguing that homosexual
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Though he received the Order of Merit upon his 90th birthday
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And was made a Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour in 1953
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“Some Books: A New Year's Resolution for 1944”
Won Benson Medal (1937).
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And to whom he showed an early draft of Maurice decades before its posthumous publication
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And the godfather of their son, Robert Morgan, the following year
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Forster began his 40-year relationship with Bob Buckingham (1904–1975), a married policeman
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Awarded James Tait Black Memorial Prize (1924).
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After returning to England in 1919, Forster visited el Adl in 1922 and found him deathly ill with tuberculosis.
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Forster visited el Adl in 1922 and found him deathly ill with tuberculosis
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And quickly developed an interest in each other
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And had a short-lived but emotionally powerful affair with an Egyptian tram conductor, Mohammad el Adl
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Forster "lost his R [respectability]" to a wounded soldier whilst in Egypt in 1917, and had a short-lived but emotionally powerful affair with an Egyptian tram conductor, Mohammad el Adl.
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The novel was not published until 1971, the year after his death
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Inspired Forster's novel Maurice, which is partly based on them
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Through whom he first became familiar with Indian and Islamic culture
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Forster travelled in Greece and Italy out of interest in their classical heritage
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Before any of his others, initially under the title Lucy
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Studied at King's College (1897–1901).
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And his mother moved to Rooks Nest, near Stevenage, Hertfordshire, where they lived until 1893
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Born 1879-01-01.
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