March 20, 1897–November 20, 1981

F. J. Sheed was a writer, publisher, and speaker, widely recognized as one of the most important Christian intellectuals of the twentieth century.

With his wife, Maisie Ward, he founded the publishing house of Sheed & Ward, which revived the Catholic literary movement and promoted innumerable intellectual, literary, and artistic treasures of the Catholic Church.

Few men, if any, had as much an influence upon the leading lights of twentieth-century Catholicism as did Sheed: friend or publisher (or often both) to G. K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc, Sigrid Undset and Gertrud von Le Fort, Ronald Knox, Evelyn Waugh, and Christopher Dawson, and many others.