G. K. Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born in London in 1874 and grew up in Kensington, where his prodigious literary gifts manifested early. He studied art at the Slade School and literature at University College London, though he took no degree, and began his career as a journalist, quickly becoming one of the most prolific and recognizable writers in England. His output was staggering: he produced novels, short stories, poetry, plays, philosophy, theology, literary criticism, and an estimated four thousand newspaper essays, all in a career that spanned four decades. This author hub collects 1 work in the Canon Compass ranking, led by The Man Who Was Thursday.