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E.M. Forster received a third life in the 1980s when his novels Howards End and A Passage to India became art-house film hits; his second life hadalready begun in the ’70s with the posthumous publication of his explicitly gaynovel Maurice. In her sympathetic andlucid biography, Wendy Moffat examines the locked diaries and other papers ofthe author to show a gay man living openly in private through a long life as anessayist and academic. Although he had been a best-selling novelist, Forsterhad ceased publishing fiction for many decades before his death in 1970, largely,as Moffat shows, because he could not address what he considered the centralfact of his life without facing the pillory of prejudice.
