A. G. (Archibald George) Thornton (1886–1969) was a British novelist, short story writer and journalist.
[4] It tells how a famous astronomer, past middle age, discovers that real life has eluded him in his devotion to his work and sets out to recapture what he has missed.
[6] According to The Spectator John Comes Home: "describes the evolution of a boy who wins his way from humble circumstances to become a successful business position.
John's home and Mrs. Presber's subtle mastery of her husband are well represented, as also are John's early days in the City of twenty years ago, his first flirtations, and his friendships with Victor Godfrey, a gadfly youth who lures him into perils from which he emerges safely at last into the arms of his first true love.
In 1960, Thornton published a philosophical-religious work The Ultimate You, in which he countered what he saw as contemporary pessimism by arguing for the centrality of man in the universe.