G. K. Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born 29 May 1874 in England and built a career on wit that cut against the grain. He created Father Brown, the priest-detective, and wrote Orthodoxy and The Everlasting Man — works that defended Christian belief with the tools of paradox and allegory. Time magazine noted he made his points by carefully turning popular sayings inside out. He began as a high church Anglican and converted to Catholicism as his orthodoxy deepened. Biographers placed him in the line of Victorian thinkers like Newman and Ruskin. Jorge Luis Borges, influenced by his work, compared him to…