EDWARD MORGAN FORSTER
(1879–1970)
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Forster was born into an Anglo-Irish and Welsh middle-class in London. He was the child of Alice Clara and Edward Morgan Llewellyn Forster, an architect. His father died tuberculosis on 30 October 1880, before Morgan's second . In 1883, Forster and his mother to Rooksnest, near Stevenage, Herfordshire. This house as a model for Howard's End, because he had fond of his childhood .

He inherited £8,000 from his paternal great-aunt Marianne Thornton, died on 5 November 1887. The money was to live on and enabled him to become a writer. He Tonbridge School in Kent, as a day boy.

At King's College, Cambridge, 1897 and 1901, he became a of a discussion society known as the Apostles. They met in , and discussed their work on, and philosophical and moral questions. Many of its members on to constitute what came to be known as the Bloomsbury Group, of Forster was a peripheral member in the 1910s and 1920s.

After leaving university, he travelled in Europe with his mother. They moved to Weybridge, Surrey he wrote all six of his novels. In 1914, he Egypt, Germany and India with the classicist Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson, by which time he had written all but of his novels. In the First World War, as a conscientious objector, Forster for the International Red Cross, and served in Alexandria, Egypt.

Forster spent a second spell in India in the 1920s as the private secretary to Tukojirao III, the Maharajah of Dewas. The Hill of Devi is his non-fictional of this period. After to London from India, he completed his novel, A Passage to India (1924).
(adapted from Wikipedia)