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G. K. Chesterton
English author and Christian apologist (1874–1936)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 29 May 1874
- Died
- 14 June 1936, 1936
- Place of birth
- Kensington, London
- Place of death
- Beaconsfield
- Sex or gender
- male
- Family name
- Chesterton
- Spouse
- Frances Chesterton
- Sibling
- Cecil Chesterton
- Genre
- essay
- Field of work
- theology, Christian apologetics, literary criticism, art criticism, poetry, prose, drama, essay, journalism
- Occupation
- journalist, poet, novelist, autobiographer, writer, screenwriter, philosopher, biographer, illustrator, crime fiction writer, literary historian, essayist
- Position held
- chairperson
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Religion
- Catholicism, Anglicanism
- archives at
- Louis Round Wilson Library, John M. Kelly Library, Hesburgh Libraries Rare Books & Special Collections, University of Notre Dame Archives, New York Public Library Main Branch
- cause of death
- heart failure
- described by source
- Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978), Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, BEIC Digital Library, Library of the World's Best Literature, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), Anglické listy, Collier's New Encyclopedia, 1921
- has works in the collection
- Minneapolis Institute of Art, J. Paul Getty Museum
- influenced by
- Thomas Aquinas, Edmund Burke, John Henry Newman, Hilaire Belloc
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- manner of death
- natural causes
- name in native language
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton
- nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Literature
- notable work
- The Club of Queer Trades, The Man Who Was Thursday, Orthodoxy, The Everlasting Man, The Napoleon of Notting Hill, Father Brown
- place of burial
- Buckinghamshire
- relative
- A. K. Chesterton
- start of work period
- 1890
- topic's main category
- Category:G. K. Chesterton
- writing language
- English
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