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E. M. Forster

1879 - 1970

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Edward Morgan Forster (1 January 1879 – 7 June 1970) was an English author. He is best known for his novels, particularly 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, as well as a limited number of biographies and some pageant plays. His short story "The Machine Stops" (1909) is often viewed as the beginning of technological dystopian fiction. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. E. M. Forster is the 1,006th most popular writer (up from 1,087th in 2019), the 930th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 824th in 2019) and the 101st most popular British Writer.

E. M. Forster is most famous for his novel, "A Passage to India."

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Among writers, E. M. Forster ranks 1,006 out of 7,302. Before him are Aziz Nesin, Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, Andrew of Crete, Agathon, Bettina von Arnim, and Ouyang Xiu. After him are Henri Troyat, Nellie Bly, Ed Bradley, Lyudmila Ulitskaya, Dalton Trumbo, and Yevgeny Yevtushenko.

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Among people born in 1879, E. M. Forster ranks 34. Before him are Shunroku Hata, Pál Teleki, Knud Rasmussen, Henri Giraud, Karl Bühler, and Hans Lammers. After him are Ali of Hejaz, Joseph Wirth, Hans Hahn, Victor Sjöström, Wanda Landowska, and Max Schreck. Among people deceased in 1970, E. M. Forster ranks 48. Before him are Fritz Perls, Lázaro Cárdenas, Nina Ricci, Isdal Woman, Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia, and Pedro Cea. After him are Eva Hesse, Prince Felix of Bourbon-Parma, Erich Heckel, Sonny Liston, Lev Kuleshov, and Reizo Fukuhara.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, E. M. Forster ranks 930 out of 8,785. Before him are David Coverdale (1951), Charles Wheatstone (1802), William Wilberforce (1759), Kenny Dalglish (1951), Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany (1853), and Henry Walter Bates (1825). After him are William Parry (1790), E. H. Carr (1892), John Harrison (1693), Jim Broadbent (1949), Edmund Tudor, Duke of Somerset (1499), and Rob Halford (1951).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, E. M. Forster ranks 101. Before him are David Irving (1938), Percy Fawcett (1867), Samuel Butler (1612), Bruce Chatwin (1940), Philip Pullman (1946), and George Gissing (1857). After him are Ann Radcliffe (1764), John Fowles (1926), Thomas Malory (1405), Edmund Spenser (1552), James Hadley Chase (1906), and John Dryden (1631).

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