Facts about E.M. Forster

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   Forster's only novel published during his lifetime after 1924 was A Passage to India, as he completed no other full-length fiction for the remaining 46 years until his death in 1970.

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   At age 61, E.M. Forster published Maurice in 1971, a novel about homosexual love that he had written privately in 1913 but withheld from publication during his lifetime.

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   During World War II, E.M. Forster served as president of the National Council for Civil Liberties from 1941 to 1946, championing free speech and individual rights.

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   E.M. Forster worked as a private secretary and tutor in Italy from 1901 to 1902, an experience that directly inspired the Italian settings in his novels A Room with a View and Where Angels Fear to Tread.

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   In 1924, E.M. Forster's novel A Passage to India won the James Tait Black Memorial Book Prize, establishing him as a major literary figure.

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