G K Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936) was an English writer and journalist. He wrote essays, poems, plays, short stories and novels, and also worked as a literary and social critic. He is best known for the Father Brown stories, featuring a priest who solves crimes through psychological insight and logical deduction, and for the novel “The Man Who Was Thursday.” Chesterton’s work combines humour, paradox and philosophical reflection. He converted to Roman Catholicism in 1922, which strongly influenced his later writing. A prominent and outspoken intellectual, he debated, among others, George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells and Bertrand Russell.