Chesterton, G(ilbert) K(eith)

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English novelist, essayist, and poet. He wrote numerous short stories featuring a Catholic priest, Father Brown, who solves crimes by drawing on his knowledge of human nature. Other novels include the fantasy The Napoleon of Notting Hill (1904) and The Man Who Was Thursday (1908), a deeply emotional allegory about the problem of evil.

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