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    His early biographer (better-known as an expert on fishing) claimed that this man was quite a rake in his youth, and an unusual portrait that is now the subject of a frantic fundraising campaign seems to confirm the description. Today, most people know him best as the author of a famous quotation, which inspired the title of an important novel. Who was he, what is the quotation, and who wrote the novel?

    Question #62087. Asked by lanfranco. (Jan 29 06 5:23 PM)


    gmackematix

    		Well, first stab would be John Donne, "Never send to know for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee" and Ernest Hemingway.

    Jan 29 06, 7:07 PM
    gmackematix

    		And this suggests I may be right.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Donne

    Jan 29 06, 7:13 PM
    lanfranco

    		Very fine, gmack, you get a yay!

    The biographer was, of course, Izaak Walton, author of "The Compleat Angler." The quotation, in updated English, is:

    "No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee."

    Know anything about the portrait, by any chance?

    Jan 29 06, 7:31 PM
    gmackematix

    		Here is the story with the "one Autumnal face":
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/mainjhtml?xml=/news/2006/01/28/ndonne28.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/01/28/ixhome.html

    Jan 29 06, 8:21 PM
    gmackematix

    		Dratted link! Anyway, there is a link to the story on the Telegraph website that includes the picture.

    Jan 29 06, 8:26 PM
    lanfranco

    		Not to worry, gmack. You have it right.


    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/01/28/ndonne28.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/01/28/ixhome.html

    Jan 29 06, 8:42 PM

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