An interval of fourteen years elapsed before he published A Passage to India. He wrote six novels, four of which appeared before the First World War, Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905), The Longest Journey (1907), A Room with a View (1908), and Howard's End (1910). I had better add that I am quite sure I am not a great novelist.' Eminent critics and the general public have judged otherwise and in his obituary The Times called him 'one of the most esteemed English novelists of his time'. I write for two reasons: partly to make money and partly to win the respect of people whom I respect. Interviewed by the BBC on his eightieth birthday, he said: 'I have not written as much as I'd like to.
He declared that his life as a whole had not been dramatic, and he was unfailingly modest about his achievements. With King's he had a lifelong connection and was elected to an Honorary Fellowship in 1946. Edward Morgan Forster was born in London in 1879, attended Tonbridge School as a day boy, and went on to King's College, Cambridge, in 1897.
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