The time for a revival of interest in the work of G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936), a towering figure in literary world of the early twentieth century, is long overdue. Novelist, journalist, short-story writer, essayist, biographer, critic, poet and Catholic apologist, his was a many-faceted talent as this generous selection made for Everyman by his biographer Ian Ker bears witness.
INTRODUCER- Ian Ker is Senior Research Fellow in Theology at St Benet's Hall, Oxford. His biography of John Henry Newman was published last year, and he is working on a biography of G. K. Chesterton to be published by Oxford University Press in 2011.
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