Thursday, April 19, 2012 5p.m. Wendy Moffat is the author of a highly-praised biography of E. M. Forster entitled A Great Unrecorded History, the first to take full account of Forster’s homosexuality and its importance for understanding his life and his writings.
Writing in the New York Times, Janet Maslin praised the book: “But none of those biographers have had either the will or the wherewithal to concentrate as closely on Forster’s sexuality as Wendy Moffat, an impressive first-time biographer who teaches at Dickinson College. In A Great Unrecorded History, she offers an insightful, revelatory portrait of a man who deeply resented having to hide such an important side of himself but who deemed his gay novel Maurice to be ‘unpublishable until my death and England’s.'”
Moffat teaches at Dickinson College.