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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 3,308,055 page views. His biography is available in 63 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 61 in 2019). E. M. Forster is the 958th most popular writer (down from 892nd in 2019), the 772nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 691st in 2019) and the 94th most popular British Writer.

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

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  • 3.3M

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  • 61.31

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  • 63

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.76

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.59

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, E. M. Forster ranks 958 out of 5,755. Before him are Alfred Thayer Mahan, Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Eleanor H. Porter, Khaled Hosseini, Abdulrazak Gurnah, and Juan Antonio Villacañas. After him are Garcilaso de la Vega, Ernst Hanfstaengl, Sugawara no Michizane, Richard Matheson, Jean-Claude Carrière, and Edogawa Ranpo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1879, E. M. Forster ranks 33. Before him are Victor Sjöström, Joseph Wirth, Fritz Haarmann, Henri Giraud, Frederick Griffith, and Hans Lammers. After him are Chen Duxiu, Pál Teleki, Aleksandar Stamboliyski, Karl Bühler, Friedrich Adler, and Léon Jouhaux. Among people deceased in 1970, E. M. Forster ranks 45. Before him are Francis Peyton Rous, Władysław Anders, Italo Gariboldi, Lázaro Cárdenas, Prince Felix of Bourbon-Parma, and Arthur Adamov. After him are Sonny Liston, Lev Kuleshov, B. H. Liddell Hart, Percy Spencer, Barnett Newman, and Jean Giono.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, E. M. Forster ranks 772 out of 7,765. Before him are John Ambrose Fleming (1849), Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby (1861), Kenny Dalglish (1951), Charles Spurgeon (1834), Bryan Ferry (1945), and James Gregory (1638). After him are Charles Laughton (1899), William Lassell (1799), Henry Fielding (1707), John of Salisbury (1110), Frederick Fleet (1887), and Richard Laurence Millington Synge (1914).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, E. M. Forster ranks 94. Before him are Wilkie Collins (1824), Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (1757), Samuel Richardson (1689), Bruce Chatwin (1940), Ben Jonson (1572), and John Fowles (1926). After him are Henry Fielding (1707), John William Polidori (1795), Bernard Cornwell (1944), Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689), James Hadley Chase (1906), and Jerome K. Jerome (1859).

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