Herbert Gold
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Herbert Gold (born March 9, 1924) is an American novelist.
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[edit] 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 by Viking Press. He moved to New York City at age 17 after several of his poems had been accepted by New York literary magazines. While there, he studied philosophy at Columbia University and became involved with the burgeoning Beat Generation, which resulted in a lifelong friendship with writer Allen Ginsburg.
[edit] 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 to Haiti and Detroit, and hitchhiking all over the United States. He finally settled in San Francisco, where he became an important fixture in the literary scene.
Gold was often featured in Genesis West a literary magazine from Gordon Lish
Gold was married to Melissa Gold. After they divorced, she became involved with concert promoter Bill Graham, dying in the helicopter crash that took Graham's life in 1991.
[edit] Selected 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
