Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
Forster was a member of a secret society at Cambridge called The Apostles, who championed openness and tolerance. They would meet to discuss intellectual topics and sometimes even taboo (at the time) subjects like homoeroticism and homosexuality. (Source)
Forster declined an offer of knighthood in 1949. Fun fact: John Lennon declined knighthood as well. Check out this list of others like Forster who rejected knighthood. (Source.)
Hear from the great man himself: E.M. Forster talks about E.M. Forster in the first (but by no means the last) Paris Review interview with an awesome writer. (Source.)