Were E. M. Forster and Ludwig Renn both from England?
no
Title: E. M. Forster
Passage: Edward Morgan Forster (1 January 18797 June 1970), known as E. M. Forster, was an English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist.  Many of his novels examined class difference and hypocrisy in early 20th-century British society, notably "A Room with a View" (1908), "Howards End" (1910), and "A Passage to India" (1924), which brought him his greatest success.  He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 16 different years.
Title: Piney Copse
Passage: Piney Copse is 1.7 ha of woodland located approximately 450 m east of Gomshall railway station and north of the Surrey village of Abinger Hammer.  The copse is bisected by a public footpath.  It was once owned by E. M. Forster, who used to live nearby and purchased the wood using funds from book sales - principally from "A Passage to India" - in order to prevent it from being developed into housing.  When Forster died in 1970, he transferred ownership of the land in his will to the National Trust.  In 1926 Forster wrote a short essay about Piney Copse in "Abinger Harvest", entitled "My Wood".
Title: Ludwig Renn
Passage: Ludwig Renn (22 April 1889 in Dresden – 21 July 1979 in Berlin) was a German author.  Born a Saxon nobleman, he later became a committed communist and lived in East Berlin.
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