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'''Gilbert Keith Chesterton''' (1874-1936), usually abbreviated '''G.K.''', was an English writer and public figure. Though he was a prolific (and frequently prolix) writer, he is remembered best for three relatively early works: ''[[The Man Who Was Thursday]]'' and ''[[Orthodoxy]]'' (Chesterton's ''apologia'' for his Christian faith), both written in 1908; and ''[[The Innocence of Father Brown]]'', the first collection of short stories about the priest [[Father Brown]], written in 1911. Chesterton is also notable as a convert from [[Anglicanism]] to the [[Roman Catholicism|Roman Catholic]] church. Though his Catholic tendencies are discernible from his early career, he did not actually convert until 1922. Chesterton was a major influence on [[C. S. Lewis]], a Christian apologist of the 20th century.
'''Gilbert Keith Chesterton''' (1874-1936), usually abbreviated '''G.K.''', was an English writer and public figure. Though he was a prolific (and frequently prolix) writer, he is remembered best for three relatively early works: ''[[The Man Who Was Thursday]]'' and ''[[Orthodoxy]]'' (Chesterton's ''apologia'' for his Christian faith), both written in 1908; and ''[[The Innocence of Father Brown]]'', the first collection of short stories about the priest [[Father Brown]], written in 1911. Chesterton is also notable as a convert from [[Anglicanism]] to the [[Roman Catholicism|Roman Catholic]] church. Though his Catholic tendencies are discernible from his early career, he did not actually convert until 1922. Chesterton was a major influence on [[C. S. Lewis]], a Christian apologist of the 20th century.
Chesterton's writings are uneven. As a mystery writer, Chesterton's stories in ''The Innocence of Father Brown'' take the popular [[locked-room mystery]] in an interesting direction, but the later Father Brown stories lose their tightness. Chesterton is a frustrating read, because even in his flabbiest fiction there are sections of crisp prose and limpid description.

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), usually abbreviated G.K., was an English writer and public figure. Though he was a prolific (and frequently prolix) writer, he is remembered best for three relatively early works: The Man Who Was Thursday and Orthodoxy (Chesterton's apologia for his Christian faith), both written in 1908; and The Innocence of Father Brown, the first collection of short stories about the priest Father Brown, written in 1911. Chesterton is also notable as a convert from Anglicanism to the Roman Catholic church. Though his Catholic tendencies are discernible from his early career, he did not actually convert until 1922. Chesterton was a major influence on C. S. Lewis, a Christian apologist of the 20th century.

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