Sigrid Undset walked into the manager’s office of the Aschehoug publishing company, one of the largest in Norway, and tossed G.K. Chesterton’s The Everlasting Man (1925) onto his desk ...

A number of America editors and contributors over the years have answered that question with a surprising name—or at least a name that might surprise us in 2022: Sigrid Undset. The winner of the ...