E. M. Forster (1879–1970) was a celebrated writer, public intellectual, and human rights activist best known for A Room with a View, A Passage to India, Howards End, and the posthumously published love story Maurice. The author of six novels and dozens of short stories and essays, Forster was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in seventeen different years. Forster’s combined works reflected his deep commitment to “curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.”