G.K. Chesterton. Photograph, Bain News Service, 1915. Library of Congress. Public domain.
G.K. Chesterton
G.K. Chesterton (1874–1936) wrote a weekly newspaper column for thirty years, the Father Brown mysteries, and novels including The Man Who Was Thursday.
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“Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.”
Illustrated London News, “Our Note Book” (5 May 1928)
About G.K. Chesterton
G.K. Chesterton was born in Kensington, London, in 1874. He went to St Paul’s School and then the Slade School of Art, where he trained to be an illustrator.
He worked for two London publishers before he turned to journalism. In 1905 he began a weekly column for the Illustrated London News, and he kept writing it for the next thirty years.
He married Frances Blogg in 1901. His priest-detective, Father Brown, first appeared in book form in The Innocence of Father Brown (1911). He was also a Christian apologist, and in 1922 he joined the Catholic Church.
He stood six foot four, and he has been called “the prince of paradox.” He died at his home in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, in 1936.
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