The great and neglected Catholic novelist, Maurice Baring, was a great friend of G. K. Chesterton. He was also born in the same year as Chesterton, which means that we should be celebrating the 150th anniversary of his birthday together with the celebration of Chesterton’s 150th birthday. Here’s my celebratory tribute to him…
In Praise of a Great and Neglected Novelist: Maurice Baring ~ The Imaginative Conservative
The featured image is Sir James Gunn’s celebrated portrait of Chesterton, Baring and Belloc. Maurice Baring is shown standing between the seated figures of his two friends.
