Autobiography of G K Chesterton Author:G. K. Chesterton In his autobiography Chesterton describes his happy childhood, the intellectual 'doubts and morbidities" of his youth and his search for a true vocation. He includes many anecdotes about his literary friends, Henry James, George Bernard Shaw, and H G Wells. But it is his quest for religious conviction and his conversion to Catholicism that is ce... more »ntral to his story which he tells with great modesty, gentleness and intelligence.« less