British writer who rejected the title of knighthood: Who is E. M. Forster?

(1879- 7 June 1970) Edward Morgan Forster was born in 1879 in his family's house in Dorset Square, London. 

Forster, who lost his father at an early age, studied at Tonbridge School and was accepted to King's College, Cambridge, where he first studied classical philology and then history. Forster, who remained in touch with his college throughout his life, would receive an honorary faculty membership and give lectures during his maturity.

During his school days, he befriended members of the Bloomsbury Group such as Leonard Woolf, Lytton Strachey, and John Maynard Keynes; He continued to be on the outskirts of this group throughout his writing career. 

Edward Morgan Forster OM CH (1 January 1879 – 7 June 1970) was an English author, 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. He also co-authored the opera Billy Budd (1951). Today, he is considered one of the most successful of the Edwardian era English novelists. Not to be confused with E. M. Foster.

Four of his six novels were published before the outbreak of the First World War:

Where Angels Don't Visit (1905), 

The Longest Journey (1907), 

A Room with a View (1908) 

and Howards End (1910). 

Forster, who worked for the Red Cross in Alexandria during the war years, went to India, which he had visited before, after the war and worked as a private secretary for the Maharaja of Dewas. After two trips to India ten years apart, he finished his novel A Passage to India and published it in 1924.

The novel, which was praised by literary circles and the public, also won the Femina-Vie Heureuse and the James Tait Black Memorial Award. 

Despite these achievements, Forster continued to have serious doubts about authorship and productivity which haunted him throughout his life. Forster, who kept his personal life secret and wrote in his diary, "If I continue to act like this, I will become even more strange and unlikable," was not published until after the death of the author. 

Forster was a prolific literary critic; He wrote reviews and essays for various periodicals and compiled a series of lectures on literature he gave at Cambridge into a book called The Art of the Novel (1927). 

After receiving an honorary doctorate, he spent the rest of his life in Cambridge. 

Among Forster's other works 

The Celestial Omnibus (1911)

and The Eternal Moment (1928).

He has two story collections, two essays, two biographies, and two books on Alexandria. 

Although he rejected the title of knighthood, which was awarded to him in 1949, he received the order of merit in 1969. He died in 1970 at the age of ninety-one. 

His ashes were scattered in a rose garden.

Forster, who criticized the classist and moralistic attitudes of the Victorian Era and colonialism in his works, adopted contradictions and ambiguities in his literature as well as in his private life.