After the Armistice

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

by Maisie WARD (1889 - 1975)

This is the first and only authorized biography of G.K. Chesterton, written by his friend, Maisie Ward. Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874 – 1936), was an English writer, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, lay theologian, biographer, and literary and art critic. He wrote around 80 books, several hundred poems, some 200 short stories, 4000 essays, and several plays. Chesterton is well known for his fictional priest-detective Father Brown, and for his reasoned apologetics. He converted from Anglicanism to Catholicism in 1922. (Summary by Maria Therese, partially adapted from Wikipedia)

Listen next episodes of Gilbert Keith Chesterton:
Appendix A—An Earlier Chesterton , Appendix B—Prize Poem Written at St. Paul's , Appendix C—The Chestertons , Columbus, Part 1 , Columbus, Part 2 , Completion , Last Days , Our Lady's Tumbler , Rome via Jerusalem, Part 1 , Rome via Jerusalem, Part 2 , Silver Wedding, Part 1 , Silver Wedding, Part 2 , The Distributist League and Distributism , The Living Voice , The Reluctant Editor (1925-1930), Part 1 , The Reluctant Editor (1925-1930), Part 2 , The Soft Answer