Literary Converts - Hardcover

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Joe Pearce is the author of WISDOM AND INNOCENCE, a biography of GK Chesterton (Hodder), TOLKIEN MAN AND MYTH (HarperCollins) and is to write a biography of Solzhenitsyn for us next year. A young writer who we are developing as a HarperCollins author.

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The twentieth century has been marked both by belief and unbelief . While church attendance has declined, the lives of many of the most salient figures of our times have been influenced and inspired by Christianity.

'Literary Converts' is a biographical exploration into the spiritual lives of some of those figures. More specifically, it takes us on a journey into the deepest beliefs of some of the greatest writers in the English language: Oscar Wilde, Evelyn Waugh, C. S. Lewis, Malcom Muggeridge, Graham Greene, George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, Hilaire Belloc, G. K. Chesterton, Dorothy Sayers, T. S. Eliot and J. R. R. Tolkien.

Many will be intrigued to know more about what inspired their literary heroes; others will find the association of such names with Christian belief surprising or even controversial. Whatever viewpoint we may have, 'Literary Converts' touches on some of the most important questions of the twentieth century, making a fascinating read.