Who wrote this?

[Anita]

Ernest Hemingway because of his support of the Spanish Civil War. Your second quote from the "The Sun Also Rises" was a great clue.
Here's a link from Remembering Spain: Hemingway's Civil War Eulogy and the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Rememberi...a016871321

[Gene C]

Could this have anything to do with a trilogy of books titled The Marriage of Miss Jane Austin by Collins Hemingway?

[AussieMick]

Anita scored this one. Well done! (Scored this one? ... she seems to score more than her fair share)
And that's a very interesting link to criticism of Hemingway.

As for that quote from the book The Sun Also Rises (the quote about Lincoln), I admit to being confused as to what Hemingway was conveying when he wrote it. I assume that the man who says it in the book is drunk and making an attempt at humour. My Book Club will be discussing the book this week.

Gene, I thought your answer was an attempt at humour but then I see your thinking.