On May 29, 1874, Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born in London.
A 1922 convert, Chesterton was a noted for his voluminous output of essays, poetry, plays, novels, debates, speeches, and spiritual works. He might be best known in the popular mind for creating Father Brown and the Father Brown mysteries. But his spiritual works include acclaimed biographies of St. Francis of Assisi and St. Thomas Aquinas, and two works often listed as spiritual classic of the 20th Century: Orthodoxy and The Everlasting Man.
Chesterton, who died June 14, 1936, influenced later writers, including J. R. R. Tolkien, Dorothy Sayers, and, most famously, C. S. Lewis, who acknowledged that reading Chesterton helped to convert him from atheist to Christian.
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