Critic, novelist, and poet, born in London, England, UK. He studied art at the Slade School of Art, London, then turned to writing. Much of his best work took the form of articles for periodicals, including his own G.K.'s Weekly. He wrote a great deal of poetry, as well as literary critical studies and works of social criticism. The amiable detective-priest who brought him popularity with a wider public first appeared in The Innocence of Father Brown (1911). Chesterton became a Catholic in 1922, and thereafter wrote mainly on religious topics, including lives of Francis of Assisi and Thomas Aquinas.