Chesterton

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On sale Sep 04, 2001 | 352 Pages | 9780385502900
Best known for his Father Brown mysteries, G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936) also wrote important works of theology and religious argument. 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 well-crafted biography includes updates to the text and a new introduction by the author.

"In this short and frequently brilliant book, Garry Wills undertakes to restore our interest in Chesterton...as an essentially serious writer whose intellectual development, to say nothing of his ethical and religious opinions, is distinctly worth reappraisal."
The New York Times Book Review
Garry Wills is a historian and the author of the New York Times bestsellers What Jesus MeantPapal Sin, and Why Priests?, among others. A frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and other publications, Wills is a Pulitzer Prize winner and a professor emeritus at Northwestern University. He lives in Evanston, Illinois. View titles by Garry Wills

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Best known for his Father Brown mysteries, G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936) also wrote important works of theology and religious argument. 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 well-crafted biography includes updates to the text and a new introduction by the author.

"In this short and frequently brilliant book, Garry Wills undertakes to restore our interest in Chesterton...as an essentially serious writer whose intellectual development, to say nothing of his ethical and religious opinions, is distinctly worth reappraisal."
The New York Times Book Review

Author

Garry Wills is a historian and the author of the New York Times bestsellers What Jesus MeantPapal Sin, and Why Priests?, among others. A frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and other publications, Wills is a Pulitzer Prize winner and a professor emeritus at Northwestern University. He lives in Evanston, Illinois. View titles by Garry Wills