In his debut novel, Greenland, David Santos Donaldson takes this crucial but necessarily closeted relationship of Forster's and runs with it, all the way from a basement room in Brooklyn to the icy white expanses of the Greenland of the novel's title. Mohammed's widow sent Forster her husband's gold wedding ring. There, he met an Egyptian tram driver named Mohammed el-Adl, and began an intense relationship that violated racial and, of course, sexual boundaries.Įven after Forster left Egypt and Mohammed married, the two men kept up a correspondence, which came to a close with Mohammed's death from tuberculosis in 1922. His alternative service took him to Alexandria, Egypt, where he worked for the British Red Cross.
Forster, best known for the novels Howard's End, A Room With a View and A Passage to India, was a conscientious objector during World War I.
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