E M Forster

E M FORSTER d1970. English author. He is best known for his novels ; 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. His short story "The Machine Stops" (1909) is often viewed as the beginning of technological dystopian fiction. His views as a humanist are at the heart of his work. Considered one of the most successful of the Edwardian era English novelists, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 22 separate years. He declined a knighthood in 1949, was made a Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour in 1953 and in 1961 he was one of the first five authors named as a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature. Many of his novels were posthumously adapted for cinema including ; A Room with a View (1985) / Maurice (1987) and Howards End (1992). He died in Coventry aged 91 on June 7th 1970