Louis Golding

Louis Golding (November 19, 1895 – August 9, 1958) was an English poet and prose writer, famous in his time especially for his novels; he also wrote also short stories, essays, fantasies, and travel books.

Life
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.

Publicationss

 * 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 Litvinoff)
 * The Bareknuckle Breed (1952)(Ghostwritten by Emanuel Litvinoff), published by Hutchinson & Co Ltd
 * The Little Old Admiral (1958)
 * The Frightening Talent (1973) novel