"G.K. Chesterton in full Gilbert Keith Chesterton (born May 29 1874 London England died June 14 1936 Beaconsfield Buckinghamshire) English critic and author of verse essays novels and short stories known also for his exuberant personality and rotund figure. Chesterton was educated at St. Paul's School and later studied art at the Slade School and literature at University College London. His writings to 1910 were of three kinds. First his social criticism largely in his voluminous journalism was gathered in The Defendant (1901) Twelve Types (1902) and Heretics (1905). In it he expressed strongly pro-Boer views in the South African War. Politically he began as a Liberal but after a brief radical period became with his Christian and medievalist friend Hilaire Belloc a Distributist favouring the distribution of land. This phase
of his thinking is exemplified by What's Wrong with the World (1910)."