Editing E. M. Forster (section)

==Career==
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In 1914, he visited [[Egypt]], Germany and India with the classicist [[Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson]], by which time he had written all but one of his novels.<ref>[[Lionel Trilling]], [https://books.google.com/books?id=AESTWbfW8G8C&pg=PA114 ''E. M. Forster'', p. 114.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140502032740/http://books.google.com/books?id=AESTWbfW8G8C&pg=PA114|date=2 May 2014}}</ref> As a [[conscientious objector]] in the First World War, Forster served as a Chief Searcher (for missing servicemen) for the [[British Red Cross]] in [[Alexandria]], Egypt.<ref>{{Cite web |title=British Red Cross volunteer records |url=https://vad.redcross.org.uk/Card?fname=edward&sname=forster&id=77266&first=true |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180905024514/https://vad.redcross.org.uk/Card?fname=edward&sname=forster&id=77266&first=true |archive-date=5 September 2018 |access-date=4 September 2018}}</ref>

Forster spent a second spell in India in the early 1920s as private secretary to [[Tukojirao III]], [[Maharajah]] of [[Dewas]]. ''[[The Hill of Devi]]'' is his non-fictional account of this period. Upon his return to England, Forster wrote ''A Passage to India''. All six of his novels were completed in [[Weybridge|Weybridge, Surrey]].

Forster was awarded a [[Benson Medal]] in 1937. In the 1930s and 1940s, Forster became a notable broadcaster on [[BBC Radio]], and while [[George Orwell]] was the BBC India Section talks producer from 1941 to 1943, he commissioned from Forster a weekly book review.<ref name="Orwell1987">{{Cite book |last=Orwell|first=George |author-link=George Orwell |title=The War Broadcasts |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Urb_nQEACAAJ |year=1987 |publisher=Penguin Books |isbn=978-0-14-018910-0}}</ref> Forster was President of the [[Liberty (advocacy group)|National Council for Civil Liberties]], as well as Cambridge Humanists from 1959 to his death. Forster became publicly associated with the [[British Humanist Association]]. In addition to his broadcasting, he advocated individual liberty and penal reform and opposed censorship by writing articles, sitting on committees and signing letters. He testified as a witness for the defence in the 1960 obscenity trial over the sexually explicit content in [[D. H. Lawrence|D.H. Lawrence]]'s previously unpublished ''[[Lady Chatterley's Lover]]''.

[[File:Robert and May Buckingham House.jpg|thumb|Forster lived and died at this house, the home of his friends Robert and May Buckingham. The sign above the garage door marks the 100th anniversary of his birth.]]Forster was elected an honorary [[fellow]] of King's College in January 1946,<ref name="Cambridge_Companion">{{Cite book |title=The Cambridge Companion to E. M. Forster |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2007 |isbn=978-0-521-83475-9 |editor=David Bradshaw |chapter=Chronology |access-date=27 May 2008 |chapter-url=http://assets.cambridge.org/97805218/34759/frontmatter/9780521834759_frontmatter.htm}}</ref> and lived for the most part in the college, doing relatively little. In April 1947 he arrived in America for a three-month nationwide tour of public readings and sightseeing, returning to the East Coast in June.<ref name="ReferenceA">Wendy Moffat, ''E. M. Forster: A New Life'', London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2010.</ref> He declined a [[British honours system#Knighthood|knighthood]] in 1949 and was made a Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour in 1953.<ref name="Cambridge_Companion" /> At age 82, he wrote his last short story, ''Little Imber'', a science fiction tale. According to his friend [[Richard Marquand]], Forster was critical of American foreign policy in his latter years, which was one reason he refused offers to adapt his novels for the screen, as Forster felt such productions would involve American financing.<ref>{{Cite video |medium=dvd |title=EM Foster Obituary Special |author=BBC |publisher=Goldcrest Films International |date=14 July 1970}}</ref>

At 85 he went on a pilgrimage to the Wiltshire countryside that had inspired his favourite among his own novels, ''The Longest Journey'', escorted by [[William Golding]].<ref name="ReferenceA" /> In 1961, he was one of the first five authors named as a [[Companion of Literature]] by the [[Royal Society of Literature]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://rsliterature.org/award/companions-of-literature/ |title=Companions of Literature |date=2 September 2023 |publisher=Royal Society of Literature}}</ref> In 1969, he was made a member of the [[British Order of Merit|Order of Merit]].