His writing remains as timely and as timeless today as when it first appeared, even though much of it was published in throw away paper. His style is unmistakable, always marked by humility, consistency, paradox, wit, and wonder. But they have to be good essays, all of them, as funny as they are serious, and as readable and rewarding a century after you've written them.) Chesterton was equally at ease with literary and social criticism, history, politics, economics, philosophy, and theology. If you're not impressed, try it some time. (To put it into perspective, four thousand essays is the equivalent of writing an essay a day, every day, for 11 years. He also edited his own newspaper, G.K.'s Weekly. 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. Born in London, Chesterton was educated at St.
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