authors

[kidda]

who wrote for whom the bells toll?

[Glossopswift]

For whom the bell tolls (your 's' is in a different place)was by Ernest Hemingway

[Bangkok]

From memory, and probably paraphrasing,  'No man is an island, entire of itself, any man's death diminishes me, for I am of mankind, so do not send to know for whom the bell tolls, the bell tolls for thee'

John Donne 16C something (79?) St Paul's Cathedral

[Borisamber]

John Dunn in sixteen something.

[maxi29]

It was John Donne in Devotions (numeber 17 to be precise). Don't know when he wrote it but he died in 1631.

[Trillipse]

it was indeed hemingway quoting donne. but don't bother reading hemingway. read steinbeck and bukowski instead.

[elizabethg]

ernest hemmingway