- Herbert Gold
Herbert Gold (born
March 9 ,1924 ) is an American novelist.Early life
Gold was born in
Cleveland ,Ohio , and raised in Lakewood, a community he was later to memorialize in his first book, "Birth of a Hero", published in 1951 byViking Press . He moved toNew York City at age 17 after several of his poems had been accepted by New York literary magazines. While there, he studiedphilosophy atColumbia University and became involved with the burgeoningBeat Generation , which resulted in a lifelong friendship with writerAllen Ginsberg .Career
Gold won a Fulbright Scholarship and moved to
Paris , where he finished his first novel. After that, he moved around as he wrote, traveling toHaiti andDetroit , and hitchhiking all over theUnited States . He marriedEdith Zubrin and had two daughters with her, Ann Gold (b. 1950) and Judith Gold (b. 1952). They later divorced, and he finally settled in San Francisco, where he became an important fixture in the literary scene.Genesis West volume six was published in the Winter of 1964 with an interview of Herbert Gold by
Gordon Lish .Gold was married to
Melissa Dilworth and had three children with her: daughter Nina Gold and twin boys Ari and Ethan. After they divorced, she became involved with concert promoter Bill Graham, dying in thehelicopter crash that took Graham's life in 1991.He is a father of five (Ann, Judith, Nina, Ari, and Ethan), and a grandfather of six (Sarah, Sasha, and David Buscho, children of Ann; Sonia and Nora Heidenreich, daughters of Judith; and Ella, daughter of Nina).
elected works
*"Birth of a Hero" (1951)
*"The Prospect Before Us" (1954)
*"The Man Who Was Not with It" (1956) ISBN 0-912697-69-5
*"The Optimist" (1959)
*"Fathers: A Novel in the Form of a Memoir" (1967) ISBN 0-87795-550-6
*"He/She" (1980) ISBN 0-87795-264-7
*"Bohemia" (1994) ISBN 0-671-76781-X
*"Haiti - Best Nightmare on Earth" (2001) ISBN 0-7658-0733-5
*"Still Alive!: A Temporary Condition" (A Memoir)(2008) ISBN 1-55970-870-0External links
*wayback|http://web.archive.org/web/20060117102345/http://www.ohioreadingroadtrip.org/gold/|Biographical article on Gold
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*Herbert Gold in "News from the Republic of Letters ":
** [http://www.bu.edu/trl/1415/gold.html Bewitched, Bothered and Begoogled: Nos. 14/15]
** [http://www.bu.edu/trl/13/gold.html The Tragedy You Can Dance To: No. 13]
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