E.M. Forster was an English novelist, short story writer, essayist, and librettist who lived from 1879 to 1970. He is well renowned for his sardonic and well-structured books that explore social differences and hypocrisy, as well as attitudes toward gender and homosexuality in early twentieth-century British culture. Howards End, A Room with a View, A Passage to India, The Longest Journey, and Where Angels Fear to Tread are among his best-known works.