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G.K. Chesterton

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Born: May 28 1874

Died: 1313 06 19361936

Gilbert Keith Chesterton was an English writer, philosopher, lay theologian, and literary and art critic.

He was educated at St. Paul’s, and went to art school at University College London. In 1900, he was asked to contribute a few magazine articles on art criticism, and went on to become one of the most prolific writers of all time. He wrote a hundred books, contributions to 200 more, hundreds of poems, including the epic Ballad of the White Horse, five plays, five novels, and some two hundred short stories, including a popular series featuring the priest-detective, Father Brown. In spite of his literary accomplishments, he considered himself primarily a journalist. He wrote over 4000 newspaper essays, including 30 years worth of weekly columns for the Illustrated London News, and 13 years of weekly columns for the Daily News. He also edited his own newspaper, G.K.’s Weekly.

Chesterton was equally at ease with literary and social criticism, history, politics, economics, philosophy, and theology.

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Books from G.K. Chesterton

The Innocence of Father Brown

The Complete Father Brown

The Floating Admiral

The Man Who Knew Too Much

Saint Thomas Aquinas

The Wisdom of Father Brown

Heretics

Saint Francis of Assisi

The Ballad of the White Horse

Bread and Wine: Readings for Lent and Easter

The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

The Complete Father Brown

Murder on Christmas Eve: Classic Mysteries for the Festive Season

The Complete Father Brown

Eugenics and Other Evils: An Argument Against the Scientifically Organized State

Silent Nights: Christmas Mysteries

Orthodoxy

Father Brown: The Complete Collection

Heretics

What's Wrong with the World