T. E. Lawrence — E. M. Forster
6 min readNov 22, 2021
“ T. E. liked to meet people upon a platform of his own designing.”
Novelist E. M. Forster, author of Howards End and many another hugely influential novel of the early 20th century, thought Lawrence’s Seven Pillars of Wisdom was a masterpiece but never told Lawrence as he thought that might be ‘fatal’ to their friendship.