I Slept with a Murderer

Louis Golding

1938

I slept with a murderer every night of my life for two years. The murderer is dead now. He died some weeks ago in Chicago. That is why I am free to tell the tale.

I was a small boy at that time. I must have been ten or eleven years old. We lived in a poor street in Manchester, which was blocked by a wire factory from the pitchy waters of the river…

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Louis Golding

1895–1958

The prolific novelist, poet, and travel writer Louis Golding was born in Manchester and educated at Manchester Grammar School and Queen’s College, Oxford. His best-known novels, including Magnolia Street (1932), which won him international recognition, drew on his intimate knowledge of immigrant Jewish life in his birthplace, which he called Doomington in his fiction. Although sometimes hailed as the successor to Israel Zangwill in Anglo-Jewish literature, his work lacked the latter’s staying power and was rarely read after his death.

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