If you're not impressed, try it some time. (To put it into perspective, four thousand essays is the equivalent of writing an essay a day, every day, for 11 years. He also edited his own newspaper, G.K.'s Weekly. He wrote over 4000 newspaper essays, including 30 years worth of weekly columns for the Illustrated London News, and 13 years of weekly columns for the Daily News. In spite of his literary accomplishments, he considered himself primarily a journalist. He wrote a hundred books, contributions to 200 more, hundreds of poems, including the epic Ballad of the White Horse, five plays, five novels, and some two hundred short stories, including a popular series featuring the priest-detective, Father Brown. In 1900, he was asked to contribute a few magazine articles on art criticism, and went on to become one of the most prolific writers of all time. Born in London, Chesterton was educated at St.
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