Who wrote this?

[AussieMick]

Wild guess --> Giuseppe Garibaldi.

Not too wild ... but also not correct, Roger.

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As Roger thought, the writer's first language was not English. But he later became very proficient in it (alarmingly so, IMO).

He wrote articles (though the above quoted text was NOT included in one of these) for a US newspaper which (apparently) was the first one to include a regular section of literary reviews.