January 1, 1879 - June 7, 1970
English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist
Author of "Where Angels Fear to Tread", "Room With a View", "Howard's End" and "A Passage to India"
Born Edward Morgan Forster
Nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature 16 times
Wrote the libretto for Benjamin Britten's "Billy Budd"