Louis Golding

Louis Golding

Louis Golding (November 19 1895 – August 9 1958) was a British writer, now best known for his novels; he wrote also short stories, essays, travel books and poetry.

He was born in Manchester into a Ukrainian-Jewish family of immigrants from Cherkassy. He was educated at Manchester Grammar School and Queen's College, Oxford.

He used his Manchester background (as 'Doomington') and Jewish themes in his novels, the first of which was published while he was still an undergraduate (his student time was interrupted by World War I). He also wrote in fantasy genres.

His novel "Magnolia Street" was a bestseller of 1932; it is based on Hightown area of Manchester, as it was in the 1920s. It features, authentically enough, a street divided into 'gentile' and 'Jewish' sides. It was a 1939 play for Charles B. Cochran in an adaptation by Golding and A. E. Rawlinson, and was also filmed as "Magnolia Street Story".

He worked on the screenplay of the Paul Robeson film "The Proud Valley" (1940); this may have led to his later visa problems with the U.S. authorities, The (1940). He also was involved in the script of the 1944 film of his novel "Mr. Emmanuel".

Works

*Sorrow Of War [1919] poems
*Forward from Babylon (1920) novel
*Shepherd Singing Ragtime: and other poems (1921)
*Prophet And Fool (1923) poems
*Seacoast Of Bohemia (1923)
*Sunward (1924) travel
*Sicilian Noon (1925) travel
*Day of Atonement (1925) novel
*Luigi of Catanzaro (1926)
*The Miracle Boy (1927) novel
*Store Of Ladies (1927)
*Those Ancient Lands Being a Journey to Palestine (1928) travel
*The Prince Or Somebody (1929)
*Adventures In Living Dangerously (1930)
*Give Up Your Lovers (1930)
*Magnolia Street (1932) novel
*James Joyce (1933) criticism
*The Doomington Wanderer (1934) stories
*Five Silver Daughters (1934) Tales of the Silver Sisters (1)
*The Pursuer (1936) novel
*In The Steps Of Moses The Lawgiver [1937]
*The Jewish Problem (1938) non-fiction
*Mr. Emmanuel (1939) Tales of the Silver Sisters (2)
*Hitler Through the Ages (1939) non-fiction
*The World I Knew (1940) non-fiction
*We Shall Eat and Drink Again (1944) with André Simon, essays on food and drink
*The Vicar of Dunkerly Briggs (1944) novel
*The Call of the Hand: And Other Stories (1944) stories
*Pale Blue Nightgown: A Book of Tales (1944) stories
*The Glory of Elsie Silver (1945) Tales of the Silver Sisters (3)
*Bareknuckle Lover: And Other Stories (1947)
*Honey for the Ghost (1949) novel
*The Dangerous Places (1951) Tales of the Silver Sisters (3)
*To the Quayside (1954) (Ghostwritten by Emanuel Litvinoff)
*The Bareknuckle Breed ((Ghostwritten by Emanuel Litvinoff)
*The Little Old Admiral (1958)
*The Frightening Talent (1973) novel

Further reading

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External links

* [http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9037266/Louis-Golding Encyclopaedia Britannica]


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