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Gilbert Keith Chesterton, KC*SG (29 May 1874
– 14 June 1936) better known as G. K. Chesterton, was an
English writer, lay theologian, poet, philosopher, dramatist,
journalist, orator, literary and art critic, biographer, and
Christian apologist. Chesterton is often referred to as the
"prince of paradox." Time magazine, in a review of a biography
of Chesterton, observed of his writing style: "Whenever
possible Chesterton made his points with popular sayings,
proverbs, allegories—first carefully turning them inside
out." Chesterton is well known for his fictional priest-detective
Father Brown, and for his reasoned apologetics. Even some of
those who disagree with him have recognized the wide appeal of
such works as Orthodoxy and The Everlasting Man. Chesterton, as
a political thinker, cast aspersions on both Progressivism and
Conservatism, saying, "The whole modern world has divided
itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of
Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the
Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected."
Chesterton routinely referred to himself as an "orthodox"
Christian, and came to identify this position more and more
with Catholicism, eventually converting to Roman Catholicism
from High Church Anglicanism. George Bernard Shaw, Chesterton's
"friendly enemy" according to Time, said of him, "He was a man
of colossal genius." Biographers have identified him as a
successor to such Victorian authors as Matthew Arnold, Thomas
Carlyle, Cardinal John Henry Newman, and John Ruskin.About the Author