“The
historian records, but the novelist creates.”
E. M. Forster
(1879 - 1970)
Curious facts about:
(1879 - 1970)
Curious facts about:
Forster felt daunted by India when he first visited it in 1912-1913. The
author found that both its landscape and its people defied description and
understanding.
During the First World War, Forster worked as a medical orderly in
Alexandria in Egypt. He refused to fight as a soldier because of his pacifist
ideals.
In 1960 Forster appeared as a witness for the defense in the trial for
D.H. Lawrence’s suppressed novel, Lady Chatterley’s Lover. Many writers did so,
and Lady Chatterley was cleared of the obscenity charges and published.