![]() Some of Forster’s novels, for which he is most remembered, have been adapted to film, receiving multiple Academy Award wins and nominations. He received the Order of Merit from Queen Elizabeth in 1969 and declined knighthood. He was a lifelong bachelor.įorster was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature 19 times and in 13 different years and awarded membership in the Order of Companions of Honour in 1953. ![]() Forster was open about his homosexuality only with his close friends and not with the general public. The novel is a homosexual love story that he had written in around 1913. Maurice (1971) was published following Forster’s death of a stroke in 1970. His most famous works include, A Room with a View (1908), Howards End (1910), and A Passage to India (1924). A humanist, he most often explored themes of class difference, meaningful connections between people and between people and the earth, and sexuality. ![]() Source: By Dora Carrington (1893–1932) via Wikimedia Commonsįorster became a writer following his time at Cambridge. ![]()
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