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Forster

American

[fawr-ster] / ˈfɔr stər /

noun

E(dward) M(organ), 1879–1970, English novelist.

Forster British

/ ˈfɔːstə /

noun

E ( dward ) M ( organ ). 1879–1970, English novelist, short-story writer, and essayist. His best-known novels are A Room with a View (1908), Howard's End (1910), and A Passage to India (1924), in all of which he stresses the need for sincerity and sensitivity in human relationships and criticizes English middle-class values

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Forster and Hollingsworth write for the Associated Press.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026

The prime minister replied that he didn't want to "tempt fate" and suggested Forster ask him again on Sunday.

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026

Liberal Democrat MP Will Forster asked Sir Keir if his last act would be to declare a bank holiday if England wins the World Cup.

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026

Yet Forster maintained his equilibrium and held to his admirably sane conception of the human condition.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

The tweediness of our faculty, and the curriculum itself, which began, Hellenically, Byronically, with Homer, and then skipped straight to Chaucer, moving on to Shakespeare, Donne, Swift, Wordsworth, Dickens, Tennyson, and E. M. Forster.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

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