WRITER

E. M. Forster

1879 - 1970

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Edward Morgan Forster (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). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of E. M. Forster has received more than 3,272,238 page views. His biography is available in 62 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 63 in 2019). E. M. Forster is the 1,088th most popular writer (down from 957th in 2019), the 823rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 772nd in 2019) and the 101st most popular British Writer.

E. M. Forster is most famous for his novel, "A Passage to India."

Memorability Metrics

  • 3.3M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 61.06

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 62

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.67

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.71

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

The Longest Journey
Fiction
The Longest Journey (1907) follows the young Rickie Elliot's journey to maturity. Orphaned and lame as a child, Rickie was teased at boarding school and finds Cambridge to be a kind of paradise. He is not an intellectual, but is deeply affected by art and poetry, and is accepted within a philosophical circle of students. His new sense of belonging is challenged when he is visited by old friends from home.
19073 / 5
A Passage to India
1924
Maurice
England
"Set in Edwardian England, this is the story of Maurice Hall, a Cambridge student following in the footsteps of his suburban stockbroker father. By all outward appearances Maurice seems destined for a life of compromises, a man who will simply take his place in society. But at Cambridge, the love between Maurice and his dear friend Clive Durham awakens and flourishes, introducing Maurice to feelings of joy he had never imagined and spurring him to dream that two men together could defy the world."--cover.
19714 / 5
Howards End
1910
Where Angels Fear to Tread
English
A group of well-bred English people react violently when they are confronted by a situation outside their experience. The widowed Lilia marries an Italian, and the contrast between the vitality of disreputable Gino, and the narrowness of the English, forms the central theme of the story.
19203 / 5

Page views of E. M. Forsters by language

Over the past year E. M. Forster has had the most page views in the with 408,507 views, followed by Italian (21,249), and Spanish (20,731). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Simple English (85.80%), West Frisian (75.64%), and Swedish (65.17%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, E. M. Forster ranks 1,088 out of 7,302. Before him are Nikolay Nekrasov, John Berger, Roberto Bolaño, Ivan Cankar, Dylan Thomas, and Ruy González de Clavijo. After him are Joseph Karo, Nathalie Sarraute, Pierre Louÿs, Dositej Obradović, Tadeusz Mazowiecki, and Fernando Arrabal.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1879, E. M. Forster ranks 40. Before him are Léon Jouhaux, Chen Duxiu, Pál Teleki, Franz Reichelt, Karl Bühler, and Friedrich Adler. After him are Aleksandar Stamboliyski, Periyar E. V. Ramasamy, Frederick Griffith, Adolf Strauss, Wanda Landowska, and Boris Savinkov. Among people deceased in 1970, E. M. Forster ranks 50. Before him are Lázaro Cárdenas, Pedro Cea, B. H. Liddell Hart, Sonny Liston, Jean Giono, and Prince Felix of Bourbon-Parma. After him are Lev Kuleshov, Maud Lewis, Erich Heckel, Elsa Triolet, Percy Spencer, and Fritz Bayerlein.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, E. M. Forster ranks 823 out of 8,785. Before him are Eric Burdon (1941), John Berger (1926), Kim Cattrall (1956), Dylan Thomas (1914), Edward Kelley (1555), and Macbeth, King of Scotland (1005). After him are William Carey (1761), Edward Whymper (1840), Peter Cushing (1913), H. L. A. Hart (1907), Derek Jacobi (1938), and Mairead Maguire (1944).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, E. M. Forster ranks 101. Before him are Thomas Malory (1405), Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (1757), Diana Wynne Jones (1934), Robert Graves (1895), John Berger (1926), and Dylan Thomas (1914). After him are John William Polidori (1795), Bernard Cornwell (1944), Edmund Spenser (1552), Samuel Butler (1612), Elizabeth Gaskell (1810), and Sarah, Duchess of York (1959).

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