Louis Golding

Louis Golding was an English writer, best known for his novels at the time, but he also authored short stories, essays, fantasies, travel books, and poetry, which are now completely overlooked. Golding was born in Manchester, Lancashire, to a Ukrainian-Jewish family. He attended Manchester Grammar School and Queen's College, Oxford. He incorporated his Manchester background (as 'Doomington') and Jewish themes in his books, the first of which was published while still an undergraduate (his...See more

Louis Golding was an English writer, best known for his novels at the time, but he also authored short stories, essays, fantasies, travel books, and poetry, which are now completely overlooked. Golding was born in Manchester, Lancashire, to a Ukrainian-Jewish family. He attended Manchester Grammar School and Queen's College, Oxford. He incorporated his Manchester background (as 'Doomington') and Jewish themes in his books, the first of which was published while still an undergraduate (his studies were interrupted by World War I service). Golding cited Edgar Allan Poe and Alfred Lord Tennyson as inspirations on his poetry. His novel Magnolia Street was a success in 1932; it is set in Manchester's Hightown neighborhood during the 1920s. It genuinely depicts a street separated into 'gentile' and 'Jewish' sides. It was a 1939 play for Charles B. Cochran, adapted by Golding and A. E. Rawlinson, and filmed as Magnolia Street Story. Magnolia Street was also adapted by Allan Prior into a BBC Television series of the same name in 1961, which aired for six episodes. Golding stated his political views as "strongly to the left." Golding's letter to Adolf Hitler, an attack on anti-Semitism and Nazism, was published by Hogarth Press in 1932. See less