29 May 1874 A.D. G.K. Chesterton Born
29 May 1874 A.D. G.K. Chesterton Born No author. “Discover Chesterton.” American Chesterton Society. N.d. http://www.chesterton.org/category/discover-chesterton/ . Accessed 30 Jul 2014. Discover Chesterton Why the Interest in G.K. Chesterton? The American Chesterton Society works tirelessly to promote the writings and thought of G.K. Chesterton, one of the 20th century’s greatest writers. A convert to the Catholic Church, Chesterton wrote nearly a hundred books during his lifetime, and literally thousands of essays, in newspapers and magazines. For newcomers to this website and to G.K. Chesterton, what is all the fuss about? All the issues we struggle with in the 21st century, Chesterton foresaw, and wrote about, in the early 20th century. Social injustice, the culture of death, statism, assaults on religion, and attacks on the family and on the dignity of the human person: Chesterton saw where these trends, already act...