A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
Finalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography
ALA Stonewall Honor Book
Finalist for James Tait Black Memorial Prize
E. M. Forster's homosexuality was the central fact of his life. Between Wilde's imprisonment and the Stonewall riots, Forster led a long, strange, and imaginative life as a gay man. He preserved a vast archive of his private life---a history of gay experience he believed would find its audience in a happier time. Seeing Forster's life through the lens of his sexuality, Wendy Moffat's biography offers us a dramatic new view---revealing his astuteness as a social critic, his political bravery, and his prophetic vision of gay intimacy. A Great Unrecorded History casts fresh light on one of the most beloved writers of the twentieth century.

A Great Unrecorded History: A New Life of E. M. Forster

Biographies & Memoirs

Moffat, Wendy

Arts & Literature

Picador

A REVELATORY LOOK AT THE INTIMATE LIFE OF THE GREAT AUTHOR€”AND HOW IT SHAPED HIS MOST BE LOVED WORKS With the posthumous publication of his long-suppressed novel Maurice in 1970, E. M. Forster came out as a homosexual€” though that revelation made barely a ripple in his literary reputation. As Wendy Moffat persuasively argues in A Great Unrecorded History, Forster€™s homosexuality was the central fact of his life. Between Wilde€™s imprisonment and the Stonewall riots, Forster led a long, strange, and imaginative life as a gay man. He preserved a vast archive of his private life€”a history of gay experience he believed would find its audience in a happier time. A Great Unrecorded History is a biography of the heart. Moffat€™s decade of detective work€”including first-time interviews with Forster€™s friends€”has resulted in the first book to integrate Forster€™s public and private lives.

Farrar. Straus and Giroux

Physical description; 404 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. Subjects; Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan) 1879-1970. Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan) 1879-1970 - Friends and associates.

E. M. Forster: A New Life

Bloomsbury, London

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A Great Unrecorded History: A New Life of E. M. Forster

A Great Unrecorded History: A New Life of E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster: A New Life