E. M. Forster (1879-1970) was an English writer, essayist, biographer, and travel writer whose most popular novels include A Room with a View, Howards End, and A Passage to India. ...view moreE. M. Forster (1879-1970) was an English writer, essayist, biographer, and travel writer whose most popular novels include A Room with a View, Howards End, and A Passage to India. Before his death in 1970 he was nominated for a Nobel Prize in Literature twenty times in fifteen separate years.view less