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G. K. Chesterton

1874 - 1936

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) was an English author, philosopher, Christian apologist, journalist and magazine editor, and literary and art critic. Chesterton created the fictional priest-detective Father Brown, and wrote on apologetics, such as his works Orthodoxy and The Everlasting Man. Chesterton routinely referred to himself as an orthodox Christian, and came to identify this position more and more with Catholicism, eventually converting from high church Anglicanism. Biographers have identified him as a successor to such Victorian authors as Matthew Arnold, Thomas Carlyle, John Henry Newman and John Ruskin. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. G. K. Chesterton is the 525th most popular writer (down from 497th in 2019), the 468th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 348th in 2019) and the 48th most popular British Writer.

G. K. Chesterton is most famous for his detective stories, his essays, and his poetry.

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Among writers, G. K. Chesterton ranks 525 out of 7,302. Before him are Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ilya Ehrenburg, Michel Houellebecq, Boris Vian, William S. Burroughs, and Novatian. After him are Jacinto Benavente, Ludvig Holberg, Georg Trakl, Tennessee Williams, Jules Michelet, and J. M. Barrie.

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Among people born in 1874, G. K. Chesterton ranks 26. Before him are Gertrude Stein, Ernest Shackleton, August Krogh, Nikolai Berdyaev, Alexander Kolchak, and Talaat Pasha. After him are Hugo von Hofmannsthal, D. F. Malan, Konstantin Päts, Antanas Smetona, Nicholas Roerich, and Abbas II of Egypt. Among people deceased in 1936, G. K. Chesterton ranks 20. Before him are Grigory Zinoviev, Fuad I of Egypt, Charles Nicolle, Eleftherios Venizelos, Miguel de Unamuno, and Alexander Glazunov. After him are Albert Fish, Ottorino Respighi, Louis Blériot, José Antonio Primo de Rivera, Hans von Seeckt, and Elsa Einstein.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, G. K. Chesterton ranks 468 out of 8,785. Before him are Joseph Merrick (1862), Frank P. Ramsey (1903), Joan Clarke (1917), Ken Miles (1918), Llywelyn the Great (1173), and George Shaw (1751). After him are Jasper Tudor (1431), Tom Baker (1934), Richard Trevithick (1771), Pelagius (360), Tilda Swinton (1960), and J. M. Barrie (1860).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, G. K. Chesterton ranks 48. Before him are Thomas De Quincey (1785), Samuel Butler (1835), Ken Follett (1949), Arnold Bennett (1867), Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828), and Thomas Paine (1737). After him are J. M. Barrie (1860), Enid Blyton (1897), Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849), Anthony Burgess (1917), James Hilton (1900), and Beatrix Potter (1866).

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