G.K. Chesterton

1874 – 1936

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936) was an English writer, journalist, and Christian apologist, celebrated for his wit, paradox, and joyful defense of the faith. Author of Orthodoxy, The Everlasting Man, and the Father Brown mysteries, he was received into the Catholic Church in 1922 and remains one of the most beloved Catholic voices of the twentieth century.