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Theodore Maynard
1890–1956
A lively Catholic historian and biographer, he wrote with the energy of a poet and helped many readers discover the drama of church history. Though English-born, he built much of his career in the United States and became especially known for books on American Catholicism.
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Poems
by Theodore Maynard
About the author
Born in Madras, India, in 1890 and raised in England, Theodore Maynard became an English-American poet, literary critic, and historian. He entered the Roman Catholic Church in 1913, a step often linked to the influence of G. K. Chesterton, and he moved to the United States in 1920, where he spent the rest of his life.
Maynard thought of himself first as a poet, but he was best known to readers for his historical and biographical writing. He produced more than twenty books and became an important popular historian of Roman Catholicism, especially of Catholic life in the United States. His work is remembered for making religious history readable, vivid, and personal.
He died in Port Washington, New York, in 1956. Today he is remembered as a versatile man of letters whose books bridged devotion, scholarship, and storytelling.