Title: Louis Golding Letter (VMF064), 1929
Administrative/Biographical History
Louis Golding (November 19, 1895 – August 9, 1958) 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 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. Film screenplays on which Golding collaborated included that of the Paul Robeson film The Proud Valley (1940) and the script of the 1944 film of his novel Mr. Emmanuel.
