A. G. (Archibald George) Thornton (1886 – 1969) was a British novelist and journalist.
Thornton was born in Secunderabad, India, the son of James Thornton, a physical drill teacher, and Mary Thornton. The family returned to England soon after, and Thornton was raised in Hornsey, Middlesex. In 1911 their residence was 8 Summerhill Road, South Tottenham, London. He married Beatrice M. Bate in December 1915.
He became a well-known journalist after be began writing humorous articles in The Star. [1]He later joined the literary staff of the Daily Chronicle. He won the 1923 Andrew Melrose prize for his humorous novel An Astronomer at Large.[2] It tells how a famous astronomer, past middle age, discovers that real life bas eluded him in his devotion to his work and sets out to recapture what he has missed. He also wrote John Comes Home and Summer Sowing, both published in 1927.[3] The same year, his short story "The Second Chance" appeared in John O'London's Weekly (July 30, 1927). In 1960 he 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.