Edward Morgan Forster (1879 - 1970) was an English fiction writer, essayist, and librettist. Many of his novels examine class difference and hypocrisy, including A Room with a View (1908), Howards End (1910), and A Passage to India (1924). The last brought him his greatest success. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 16 separate years.
A classic account of a vanished side of India that has never before been so graphically painted. - Raymond Mortimer, Sunday Times