Return to Chesterton normal Nominated eight times for the

Nominated eight times for the Nobel Prize in Literature

In addition to A Right to Be Merry

a convert to Roman Catholicism

but a million… (Henry James)

Return to Chesterton normal Nominated eight times for theBy Maisie Ward G. K. Chesterton was, in the words of George Bernard Shaw, a man of colossal genius. Fittingly, then, his biography could not be limited to a single work. In 1943, Maisie Ward published what Frances Chesterton called the definitive biography of her husband. Yet its seven hundred plus pages could not comprise the entirety of its subjects life, work, and influencehis genius. Untold quantities of new material arrived for Wards