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Daniel Krotz
Daniel Krotz is a founder of The American Chesterton Society and a writer living in St. Paul, Minnesota. He is the author of the Assessment of Chemical Health Inventory (ACHI), a nationally recognized standardized instrument for the diagnosis of chemical dependency and, as A.B. Silver, a wholly unrecognized writer of pulp fiction. Krotz frequently appears in the pages of Midwest Chesterton News and is the editor of Generally Speaking, the newsletter of The American Chesterton Society.
'The American Chesterton Society was founded," says Krotz, "to popularize the ideas and work of Gilbert Keith Chesterton, a British journalist and social philosopher. The goal of the ACS is to make Chesterton at least as popular as C.S. Lewis, a writer Chesterton profoundly influenced. We hope net surfers will tune into these pages frequently to learn more about how they can benefit from membership in The American Chesterton Society."
Donald F. Lehnhoff (a/k/a Frank Jovis)
Lehnhoff is an experienced writer for business, writing thousands of resumes, business plans, brochures, letters and newsletters. Having left that after "enough was enough," he has written a short children's book published here, complete with illustrations by his daughter.
Frank Jovis is a pseudonym used by Donald F. Lehnhoff for cartoon and comic writing. He is the collaborator with Joe Parker on the comic strip Sir Hog, based on a character and plush toy created by Kieth Lawson. Please check out the strips here and e-mail us any laughter or insights it generates.
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Featured works....
- Sir Hog - a sampling of comic strips exploring the work of a devil-may-care tycoon who left his agricultural heritage behind to conquer the world, but hasn't been able to entirely shake the rural dust - and characters - from his boots and his life.
- Foster - a contemporary fairy tale of coming into the world as a stranger and finding your way. Beautiful illustrations.
- American Dreamer - a short opinion piece sparked by a quiet movement in the Minnesota State Legislature in the spring of 1995 to seek a renegotiation of the state's Indian Gaming Pact. The unabashed intention was to gain a "piece of the action" for the state, since state taxation of tribal gaming is prohibited by Federal law. This piece aired on KTCA-TV's Newsnight Minnesota program in May, 1995.
G.K. Chesterton
Gilbert Keith Chesterton is one of the most prolific and prodigious writers of this century. By the time he died in 1936 he had written millions of words on hundreds of topics. Known concurrently as a journalist, essayist, novelist, detective writer, poet, theological thinker, and amateur actor, Chesterton was admired even by his detractors. He smoked, drank, ate red meat, weighed over 300 pounds, and spoke with amazing clarity of what he saw as truth. His truths may or may not be your truths, but then Chesterton would have explained that too.
Even those who have not heard of him have almost certainly heard from him, for he has been quoted more often than any other writer. His clever turn of a comparative phrase shines small spotlights on niggling thoughts that only he seemed able to recognize until he lit them for us. We include him on this page as an unexpected surprize for you who have found your way here.
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