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Gilbert Keith Chesterton

by Maisie WARD (1889 - 1975)

Introduction

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)

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Listen next episodes of Gilbert Keith Chesterton:
A Circle of Friends , A Long Engagement , After the Armistice , Appendix A—An Earlier Chesterton , Appendix B—Prize Poem Written at St. Paul's , Appendix C—The Chestertons , Art Schools and University College , Background for Gilbert Keith Chesterton , Bernard Shaw, Part 1 , Bernard Shaw, Part 2 , Childhood , Clearing the Ground for Orthodoxy , Columbus, Part 1 , Columbus, Part 2 , Completion , From Battersea to Beaconsfield, Part 1 , From Battersea to Beaconsfield, Part 2 , Incipit Vita Nova , Last Days , Marconi, Part 1 , Marconi, Part 2 , Married Life in London, Part 1 , Married Life in London, Part 2 , Orthodoxy , Our Lady's Tumbler , Rome via Jerusalem, Part 1 , Rome via Jerusalem, Part 2 , School Days, Part 1 , School Days, Part 2 , Silver Wedding, Part 1 , Silver Wedding, Part 2 , The Disillusioned Liberal, Part 1 , The Disillusioned Liberal, Part 2 , The Distributist League and Distributism , The Eve of the War (1911-1915), Part 1 , The Eve of the War (1911-1915), Part 2 , The Eye Witness , The Living Voice , The Notebook , The Reluctant Editor (1925-1930), Part 1 , The Reluctant Editor (1925-1930), Part 2 , The Soft Answer , The War Years, Part 1 , The War Years, Part 2 , To Frances , Towards a Career , Who is G.K.C.?, Part 1 , Who is G.K.C.?, Part 2