Chesterton

Part of a literary circle that included H. G. Wells George Bernard Shaw Hillaire Belloc and Max Beerbohm G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) wrote essays of social criticism for contemporary journals literary criticism (including notable books on Browning Dickens and Shaw) and works of theology and religious argument but may have been best known for his Father Brown mysteries. Chesterton's interest in Catholic Christianity first expressed in Orthodoxy led to his conversion from Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism in 1922. This revised edition of Garry Wills's finely crafted biography includes updates to the text and a new introduction by the author.