Louis Golding

Louis Golding (19 November 1895 – 9 August 1958) was an English writer, 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.

Life Born in Manchester, Lancashire 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). Golding described Edgar Allan Poe and Alfred, Lord Tennyson as influences on his poetry. In 1940, Golding also criticized the Soviet Invasion of Finland.

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. He also was involved in the script of the 1944 film of his novel Mr. Emmanuel.

Golding employed Gillian Freeman as a literary secretary. Freeman later became a novelist and screenwriter, often using her time with Golding as inspiration for her work.

He died from carcinoma of the pancreas at St George's Hospital, London, three weeks after an operation.

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 A letter to Adolf Hitler (1932) James Joyce (1933) criticism Poems Drunk and Drowsy (1933) published by the Centaur Press The Doomington Wanderer (1934) stories Five Silver Daughters (1934) Tales of the Silver Sisters (1) The Camberwell Beauty (1935) novel The Pursuer (1936) novel In the Steps of Moses the Lawgiver 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 Who's There Within? (1944) novel The Call of the Hand: And Other Stories (1944) stories Pale Blue Nightgown: A Book of Tales (1944) stories No News from Helen (1945) novel The Glory of Elsie Silver (1945) Tales of the Silver Sisters (3) The Dance Goes On (1947) novel Bareknuckle Lover; and Other Stories (1947) Three Jolly Gentlemen (1949) novel 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 Loving Brothers (1953) novel The Little Old Admiral (1958) The Frightening Talent (1973) novel