A great unrecorded history

By Wendy Moffat

Subjects: Biography, Authors, biography, English Authors, collection:randy_shilts_award=finalist, Great britain, biography, Forster, e. m. (edward morgan), 1879-1970, Friends and associates, New York Times reviewed, LGBTQ biography and memoir, Authors, english, Stonewall Book Awards, Relations with men, Gay authors, Gays, LGBTQ art and artists

Description: 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.