Forster, E.M.

The British author Edward Morgan Forster was born in London. His father was an architect. Forster attended King’s College, Cambridge and had a lifelong relationship with his alma mater. As of 1946 he lived in the college as an honorary fellow. Forster contributed stories to the newly started Independent Review in 1903. He travelled in Italy and Greece, and in 1911 he went to India. He lived in Italy for a while, and he volunteered for the Red Cross in Egypt during World War I. He was then literary editor of the London Daily Herald. Forster returned to India in 1921 where he spent two years working for the Maharaja of Dewas, a Muslim patriot he had become acquainted with in England and whom he admired. Forster was an occasional member of what became known as the Bloomsbury Group, which included Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Lytton Strachey and John Maynard Keynes.