G. K. Chesterton, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

G. K. Chesterton

English mystery novelist and Christian apologist

Date of Birth: 29-May-1874

Place of Birth: Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 14-Jun-1936

Profession: screenwriter, writer, poet, illustrator, biographer, journalist, philosopher, novelist, detective writer, essayist, literary historian, autobiographer

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About G. K. Chesterton

  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton KC*SG (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) was an English writer, philosopher, lay theologian, and literary and art critic.
  • He has been referred to as the "prince of paradox".
  • Time magazine observed of his writing style: "Whenever possible Chesterton made his points with popular sayings, proverbs, allegories—first carefully turning them inside out."Chesterton created the fictional priest-detective Father Brown, and wrote on apologetics.
  • Even some of those who disagree with him have recognised the wide appeal of such works as Orthodoxy and The Everlasting Man.
  • Chesterton routinely referred to himself as an "orthodox" Christian, and came to identify this position more and more with Catholicism, eventually converting to Catholicism from High Church Anglicanism.
  • George Bernard Shaw, his "friendly enemy", said of him, "He was a man of colossal genius." Biographers have identified him as a successor to such Victorian authors as Matthew Arnold, Thomas Carlyle, Cardinal John Henry Newman, and John Ruskin.

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