Edward Morgan Forster was born in 1879 in London to an architect father. He was raised primarily by his mother and great-aunt after his father's early death. Forster proved himself to be a bright student and attended Cambridge University, graduating in 1901. He then spent over a decade traveling, working as a journalist, and writing short stories and novels. Forster is best known for his novels that examined class differences in early 20th century British society, such as A Room with a View and Howards End.

2. Edward Morgan Forster was
born into a comfortable London
family in 1879. His father, an
architect, died when Forster was
very young, leaving the boy to
be raised by his mother and
great-aunt. Forster proved to be
a bright student, and he went on
to attend Cambridge University,
graduating in 1901. He spent
much of the next decade
traveling and living abroad,
dividing his time between
working as a journalist and
writing short stories and novels.

3. Edward Morgan Forster OM CH (1 January 1879 –
7 June 1970) was an English novelist, short story
writer, essayist and librettist. He is known best for
his ironic and well-plotted novels examining class
difference and hypocrisy in early 20th-century
British society. Forster's humanistic impulse
toward understanding and sympathy may be aptly
summed up in the epigraph to his 1910 novel
Howards End: "Only connect ... ". His 1908 novel,
A Room with a View, is his most optimistic work,
while A Passage to India (1924) brought him his
greatest success. He was nominated for the Nobel
Prize in Literature in 13 different years.

4. Many of Forster’s observations and
experiences from this time figure in his
fiction, most notably A Room with a View
(1908), which chronicles the experiences of
a group of English people vacationing in
Italy. Two years after A Room with a View,
the novel Howards End (1910), in which
Forster criticized the class divisions and
prejudices of Edwardian England, solidified
his reputation as a social critic and a
master of incisively observational fiction.

5. Long before Forster first visited
India, he had already gained a vivid
picture of its people and places from
a young Indian Muslim named Syed
Ross Masood, whom Forster began
tutoring in England starting in 1906.
Forster and Masood became very
close, and Masood introduced
Forster to several of his Indian
friends.

6. Works by Forster :-

7.  Novels :
 •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 (written in 1913–14,
published posthumously in 1971)


8.  Short stories :
 •The Celestial Omnibus (and other stories)
(1911)
 •The Eternal Moment and other stories
(1928)
 Collected Short Stories (1947) a
combination of the above two titles,
containing:
 "The Story of a Panic"
 "The Other Side of the Hedge"
 "The Celestial Omnibus"
 "Other Kingdom"

9.  Plays and pageants :
 •Abinger Pageant (1934)
 •England's Pleasant Land (1940)

 Film scripts :
 •A Diary for Timothy (1945) (directed by Humphrey
Jennings, spoken by Michael Redgrave).

 Literary criticism :
 •Aspects of the Novel (1927)
 •The Feminine Note in Literature (posthumous) (2001)
 •The Creator as Critic and Other Writings


10. In his later life , he
contented himself
primarily with writing
critical essays and
lectures, most notably
Aspects of the novel .In
1946 ,Forster accepted a
fellowship at Cambridge,
where he remained until
his death in 1970

11. ;References
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Passa
ge_to_India
http://mural.uv.es/mopasa/biography2.ht
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http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/passage/c
ontext.html