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

ISBN: 0312572891

Author: Moffat, Wendy

Condition: New

A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceFinalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for BiographyALA Stonewall Honor BookFinalist for James Tait Black Memorial PrizeE. 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.