G.K. Chesterton (29 May, 1874 – 14 June, 1936) was an English writer, theologian, critic, and philosopher. Mr. Chesterton’s most famous creating is the priest-detective Father Brown.
- G.K. Chesterton was born as Gilbert Keith Chesterton in Campden Hill, Kensington, an affluent district of London, England.
- Mr. Chesterton was educated at St. Paul’s, selective independent school for boys aged 13–18, but never attended college. Instead he went to art school, where he started to write criticism.
- Mr. Chesterton wrote about 80 books, over 2,000 poems, around 200 short stories, 4,000 essays and columns, as well as several plays.
- Despite his enormous portfolio, Mr. Chesterton considered himself first and foremost a journalist.
- In 1901 He married Frances Alice Blogg, a writer by her own right, who worked as his manager encouraging his writings, appointments, accounts and negotiations with publishers.
- Mr. Chesterton was a big guy, standing 6’4”, weighing around 290 lbs. and embraced it with wit and cynicism. One story goes that he told his friend , Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw, that “To look at you, anyone would think a famine had struck England”, Shaw appropriately replied that “To look at you, anyone would think you had caused it.”
- From 1932 until his death Mr. Chesterton gave a series of 40 popular talks per year on BBC Radio.
- Shortly before his death, Pope Pius XI made him Knight Commander with Star of the Papal Order of St. Gregory the Great.
- Mr. Chesterton passed away of congestive heart failure.
- One of the writer’s nicknames was “the prince of paradox”.
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