The total stress and if-this-is-Friday-it-must-be-Paris kaleidoscopic feeling of it all, must have overwhelmed this poor, usually windbaggish bonhomme.įor, totally lost and panic-stricken, he cabled his worry-wart wife tersely: One day, during the days of his éminence grise littéraire - the days late in his unbuttoned life, entre deux guerres - we find him on his own madcap mystery tour on the de rigeur readings and signings circuit. Gilbert Keith Chesterton’s own life stories were every bit as madcap and zany as this book is. He also edited his own newspaper, G.K.’s Weekly.Ĭhesterton was equally at ease with literary and social criticism, history, politics, economics, philosophy, and theology. He wrote over 4000 newspaper essays, including 30 years worth of weekly columns for the Illustrated London News, and 13 years of weekly columns for the Daily News. In spite of his literary accomplishments, he considered himself primarily a journalist. He wrote a hundred books, contributions to 200 more, hundreds of poems, including the epic Ballad of the White Horse, five plays, five novels, and some two hundred short stories, including a popular series featuring the priest-detective, Father Brown. In 1900, he was asked to contribute a few magazine articles on art criticism, and went on to become one of the most prolific writers of all time.

Paul’s, and went to art school at University College London. Gilbert Keith Chesterton was an English writer, philosopher, lay theologian, and literary and art critic.

The man who was thursday