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Edward Morgan Forster

エドワード・モーガン・フォースター

Edowādo Mōgan Fōsutā

Aliases: E. M. Forster

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1879-01-01 （Marylebone, Middlesex, England）
Died
1970-06-07 （Coventry, Warwickshire, England） age 91
Nationality
United Kingdom, England
Languages
English
Religion
Humanism
Residence History
Rooks Nest, Stevenage, Hertfordshire → Weybridge, Surrey → Chiswick, London

Career

Occupations
novelist, short story writer, essayist, critic, librettist
Active Years
1901-1970
Affiliations
Honorary Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, Bloomsbury Group
Memberships
Cambridge Apostles, Bloomsbury Group, President of Cambridge Humanists
Influenced By
Henry James, Thomas Hardy, D. H. Lawrence
Influenced
Virginia Woolf
Nominations
Nominated for Nobel Prize in Literature 22 times

Education

Tonbridge School
General education
Period: 1890年代
Country: United Kingdom
Day boy
King's College, Cambridge
Classics and History / Classics and History
Degree: BA
Period: 1897-1901
Year of Graduation: 1901
Country: United Kingdom
Second-class honours

Awards

Order of Merit
1969
Organization: British monarch
Result: 受賞
Companion of Honour
1953
Organization: British monarch
Result: 受賞
Benson Medal
1937
Organization: Royal Society of Literature
Result: 受賞
James Tait Black Memorial Prize
1924
Work: A Passage to India
Category: 小説部門
Organization: University of Edinburgh
Result: 受賞
Companion of Literature
1961
Organization: Royal Society of Literature
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

A Room with a View

1908 Realism

A young woman's trip to Italy and her choice between two suitors amid class differences.

class divisionlovehumanism
Adaptations
  • [Film] A Room with a View / James Ivory (1985)
  • [Film] A Room with a View / 不明 (2007)

Howards End

1910 Realism

Explores connections between different social classes in Edwardian England.

class divisionconnectionimperialism
Adaptations
  • [Film] Howards End / James Ivory (1992)
  • [Miniseries] Howards End / Hettie MacDonald (2017)

A Passage to India

1924 Modernism

Explores East-West relations in British India through a misunderstanding in the Marabar Caves.

imperialismcultural clashmysticism
Adaptations
  • [Film] A Passage to India / David Lean (1984)

Maurice

1971 Realism

A gay love story set in early 20th-century England, published posthumously.

homosexualityclassself-discovery
Adaptations
  • [Film] Maurice / James Ivory (1987)

Bibliography

  • Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905)
  • The Longest Journey (1907)
  • A Room with a View (1908)
  • Howards End (1910)
  • A Passage to India (1924)
  • Maurice (1971)

Adaptations

  • A Room with a View (1985 film)
  • Howards End (1992 film)
  • A Passage to India (1984 film)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
realismsymbolismmodernismpolished prose
Recurring Motifs
class divisionhypocrisyhumanismhomosexualityimperialism

Health

  • stroke
    1960年代後半-1970
    Affected late-life activities, leading to death at friends' home

Legacy

Key Edwardian novelist known for exploring class, human connections, and humanism. Nominated for Nobel 22 times.

Archives

  • King's College, Cambridge

In Popular Culture

  • Novels adapted into acclaimed films by Merchant Ivory productions

Quotes

  • Only connect.
    Source: Howards End (1910)
  • I do not believe in Belief... Two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
    Source: Two Cheers for Democracy (1951)

Trivia

  • Nominated for Nobel Prize in Literature 22 times
  • Father died of tuberculosis before his second birthday
  • Lifelong homosexual who remained closeted publicly
  • 'The Machine Stops' is considered an early dystopian fiction