Louis Golding
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Louis Golding was a British writer, very famous in his time especially for his novels, though he is now largely neglected; he wrote also short stories, essays, fantasies, travel books and poetry.
Born in Manchester
into a Ukrainian
-Jewish family, Golding 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 service in World War I
).
His novel Magnolia Street was a bestseller of 1932; it is based on the 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.
Boucher
and McComas
named Honey for the Ghost the best supernatural novel of 1949,saying it "begins with infinite leisure but builds to an incomparable climactic terror."
Film screenplays on which Golding collaborated included that of the Paul Robeson
film The Proud Valley
(1940); this work with Robeson 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.
Born in Manchester
Manchester
Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. According to the Office for National Statistics, the 2010 mid-year population estimate for Manchester was 498,800. Manchester lies within one of the UK's largest metropolitan areas, the metropolitan county of Greater...
into a Ukrainian
Ukrainians
Ukrainians are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Ukraine, which is the sixth-largest nation in Europe. The Constitution of Ukraine applies the term 'Ukrainians' to all its citizens...
-Jewish family, Golding was educated at Manchester Grammar School
Manchester Grammar School
The Manchester Grammar School is the largest independent day school for boys in the UK . It is based in Manchester, England...
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 service in World War I
World War I
World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...
).
His novel Magnolia Street was a bestseller of 1932; it is based on the 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
Charles B. Cochran
Sir Charles Blake Cochran , generally known as C. B. Cochran, was an English theatrical manager. He produced some of the most successful musical revues, musicals and plays of the 1920s and 1930s, becoming associated with Noel Coward and his works.-Biography:Cochran was born in Sussex and educated...
in an adaptation by Golding and A. E. Rawlinson, and was also filmed as Magnolia Street Story.
Boucher
Anthony Boucher
Anthony Boucher was an American science fiction editor and author of mystery novels and short stories. He was particularly influential as an editor. Between 1942 and 1947 he acted as reviewer of mostly mystery fiction for the San Francisco Chronicle...
and McComas
J. Francis McComas
Jesse Francis McComas was an American science fiction editor. McComas wrote several stories on his own in the 1950s using both his own name and the pseudonym Webb Marlowe....
named Honey for the Ghost the best supernatural novel of 1949,saying it "begins with infinite leisure but builds to an incomparable climactic terror."
Film screenplays on which Golding collaborated included that of the Paul Robeson
Paul Robeson
Paul Leroy Robeson was an American concert singer , recording artist, actor, athlete, scholar who was an advocate for the Civil Rights Movement in the first half of the twentieth century...
film The Proud Valley
The Proud Valley
The Proud Valley is a 1940 Ealing Studios film starring the African-American actor Paul Robeson. Filmed on location in the South Wales coalfield the heart of the main coal mining region of Wales, the film tells the story of a Black American miner and singer who gets a job in a mine and joins a male...
(1940); this work with Robeson 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 (4)
- To the Quayside (1954) (Ghostwritten by Emanuel LitvinoffEmanuel LitvinoffEmanuel Litvinoff was a British writer and human rights campaigner, and a well known figure in Anglo-Jewish literature.-Background:...
) - The Bareknuckle Breed (1952)(Ghostwritten by Emanuel LitvinoffEmanuel LitvinoffEmanuel Litvinoff was a British writer and human rights campaigner, and a well known figure in Anglo-Jewish literature.-Background:...
), published by Hutchinson & Co Ltd - The Little Old Admiral (1958)
- The Frightening Talent (1973) novel