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

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.