Gilbert Keith Chesterton (A Sheed & Ward Classic) Paperback – December 8, 2005 9780742550445

From the new introduction by Andrew Greeley:
“This book had a decisive impact on me and on my life when I read it at the age of sixteen―and not merely because my fictional detective Blackie Ryan is an American cousin of GKC’s Father Brown. Ms. Ward’s biography introduced me not only to a world of literature of which I had been unaware, but to a perspective on literature and life which was enormously attractive because it confirmed many of the insights, instincts, inclinations, biases, and loves which were knocking around in my adolescent skull. I have been a Chestertonian all my life in part because I had been one without knowing it even before I read Ms. Ward’s biography.”