Herbert Gold

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Herbert Gold (born March 9, 1924), an American novelist.

Early life

Gold was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on March 9, 1924, to a Russian Jewish family. Samuel S. and Frieda (Frankel) Gold's parents were married. His father owned a fruit store and later a grocery store. Gold was born in Lakewood, a neighborhood he was later to commemorate in his first book, Birth of a Hero (1951). In Lakewood, Ohio, he attended Taft Elementary and Lakewood High School.

After several of his poems were accepted by New York literary journals, Gold moved to New York City at age 17. While attending Columbia University and becoming affiliated with the emerging Beat Generation, resulting in a lifelong friendship with writer Allen Ginsberg. During World War II, his studies were interrupted when he served in the United States Army from 1943 to 1946.

He earned a B.A. degree from Columbia University. degree in 1946 and M.A. Degree from 1948.

Despite being closely connected with San Francisco's literary history, which has largely defined the Beat Generation, Gold does not appear to have ever been a member of this group of writers. Gold was referred to as a "Beat-adjacent novelist" in a Washington Post interview in 2017.

Personal life

Edith Zubrin, a writer and scholar from 1948 to 1956, and then divorced. Ann Gold and Judith Gold are the father of daughters from this marriage. Edith Zubrin died in 2000.

J. Richardson Dilworth, Melissa Dilworth, from 1968 to 1975, Gold was married to Nina Gold and twin boys Ari Gold and Ethan Gold, with whom he had three children: daughter Nina Gold and twin boys. Melissa married again after divorce, and she later became involved with concert promoter Bill Graham. In 1991, she and Graham were killed in an accidental helicopter crash.

Gold has lived in a one-bedroom apartment in San Francisco's more conservative, tourist friendly Russian Hill neighborhood since 1961, in contrast to many in the Beat Generation.

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Career

Goldson received a Fulbright Scholarship (1948–1951) and travelled to Paris with his new partner Edith Zubrin, as well as Paris, where he wrote his first book. During his Fulbright Scholarship, he took classes at the Sorbonne in Paris.

He wrote about Haiti and Detroit, and hitchhiking all over the country after that. He eventually settled in San Francisco, where he became a fixture of the literary scene. As Vladimir Nabokov's replacement, Gold taught English literature at Cornell University in 1958.

Genesis West (Vol. 0): Vol. Herbert Gold, a book that was published in the Winter of 1964, was published in the Winter of 1964 by Gordon Lish.

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