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With his Falstaffian figure and combination Edwardian/Sir Galahad outlook, it is easy – and a mistake – to underestimate the talent and influence of G.K. Chesterton. Born in London in 1874, Gilbert ...

According to Wikipedia, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, who lived from May 1874 to June 1936, was an English writer, philosopher, Christian apologist, and literary and art critic. Some have referred to him ...

He was 6 foot 4 in the old money (192cm) and almost as wide. He wrote some novels - The Man Who was Thursday and The Napoleon of Notting Gate - which will live as classics. He wrote books such as ...

A big man, physically and intellectually, Gilbert Keith Chesterton finally gets the big book he deserves. Father Ian Ker, who wrote a well-respected biography of Newman, among other books, has ...

The author of a new book on G.K. Chesterton says the 20th-century author and Catholic convert is a model for joyful evangelization who can help unify the fractured modern worldview. "Chesterton is the ...

Devotees of the English writer and Catholic apologist G.K. Chesterton rejoiced at the news that a Catholic bishop in England is seeking to open an investigation into whether he should be declared a ...

GK Chesterton was one of the giants of early 20th-century literature. If that description makes him sound less like a human being than a fairy-tale creature, then it accurately captures a character ...