G. K. Chesterton
G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936), British novelist and essayist, who became a Roman Catholic in 1922. His best-known works include the anti-imperialist novel The Napoleon of Notting Hill (1904), The Man Who was Thursday (1908), and a popular series of detective stories featuring the priest Father Brown. His enormous girth, piping voice, and absentminded manner were often lampooned.
