E.M. Forster: A Portrait

by J.R. Ackerley

28 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1970

About the author

Joe Randolph "J. R." Ackerley was a British writer and editor. Starting with the BBC the year after its founding in 1927, he was promoted to literary editor of The Listener, its weekly magazine, where he served for more than two decades.

He published many emerging poets and writers who became influential in Great Britain. He was openly gay, a rarity in his time when homosexuality was forbidden by law and socially ostracized.

Reviews

[Emma Madden · Rating 5 out of 5]

"I have mentioned him weeping- a thing saints ought to to be able to do, so long as they don't weep for themselves"

This was so beautiful to read and now Forster is my bro and if I'm anything short of him I'm wrong

[Richard · Rating 4 out of 5]

An affectionate, lovely portrait of Morgan Forster written by his friend Joe Ackerley. "I would say that in so far as it is possible for any human being to be both wise and worldly wise, to be selfless in any material sense, to have no envy, jealousy, vanity, conceit, to contain no malice, no hatred (though he had anger), to be always reliable, considerate, generous, never cheap, Morgan came as close to that as can be got."