Edward Morgan Forster was an English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist. Forster was a humanist, homosexual, lifelong bachelor. He developed a long-term loving relationship with Bob Buckingham, a married police officer (his wife's name was May), whom he met in 1930 during an evening organized by J.R. Ackerley. Buckingham was there as a friend of Harry Daley, Ackerley’s current lover and Foster’s previous. When the two met, Buckingham was 28, Forster 51. May became his friend and nursemaid. Forster included the couple in his circle, which also included the writer and arts editor of The Listener, J.R. Ackerley, the psychologist Sebastian Sprott, and, for a time, the composer Benjamin Britten. Other writers with whom Forster associated included the poet Siegfried Sassoon and the Belfast-based novelist Forrest Reid. Another of Forster’s lovers was Charles Mauron (1899-1966), a French translator of contemporary English authors. Forster died of a stroke in Coventry on June 7, 1970, at the age of 91, at the home of the Buckinghams. Maurice (1971), a homosexual love story, was published posthumously. "A happy ending was imperative," Forster writes in Maurice's Terminal Notes, even though Maurice says: "All the world's against us."
Edward Morgan Forster was an English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist. Forster was a humanist, homosexual, lifelong bachelor. He developed a long-term loving relationship with Bob Buckingham, a married police officer (his wife's name was May), whom he met in 1930 during an evening organized by J.R. Ackerley. Buckingham was there as a friend of Harry Daley, Ackerley’s current lover and Foster’s previous. When the two met, Buckingham was 28, Forster 51. May became his friend and nursemaid. Forster included the couple in his circle, which also included the writer and arts editor of The Listener, J.R. Ackerley, the psychologist Sebastian Sprott, and, for a time, the composer Benjamin Britten. Other writers with whom Forster associated included the poet Siegfried Sassoon and the Belfast-based novelist Forrest Reid. Another of Forster’s lovers was Charles Mauron (1899-1966), a French translator of contemporary English authors. Forster died of a stroke in Coventry on June 7, 1970, at the age of 91, at the home of the Buckinghams. Maurice (1971), a homosexual love story, was published posthumously. "A happy ending was imperative," Forster writes in Maurice's Terminal Notes, even though Maurice says: "All the world's against us."
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