Background
Gold was born in Cleveland, Ohio in a Russian Jewish family, 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.
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A kaleidoscopic memoir of a 35-year love affair with mysterious, exotic Haiti. The dialogue the author conducts with this beleaguered island is rich with surprising revelations and startling juxtapositions. "The best all-encompassing explanation of this . . . tragic island country that I have read".--Digby Diehl, Playboy.
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Gold has written a wonderfully personal book, hilarious and painful, fascinating and moving. at once intimate and universal. It is the the search honesty and immediacy.
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The Man Who Was Not With It is the story of young Bud Williams and his safari southward to Florida. On the way, he is abruptly confronted with the con men, addicts, and freaks, and the bruised innocence, of carnival and nightclub life.Â
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Veteran San Francisco private eye Dan Kasdan manages to find and then lose Pricilla, the love of his life, several times over the course of thirty years, always competing with his criminal counterpart, Karim."
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ÒOld age is a shipwreck,Ó Charles de Gaulle once observed. Not so, says Herb Gold in this lively, often hilarious memoir of his first seven decades. He is clearly enjoying every moment to the fullest. This is a book about how time overtakes us, how reminiscence, loss, hope, pain, success, failureÑthe lifelong accumulation of dreams and realityÑcrowd about us with every passing day. Combining a fascinating selection of people, places, and key events from a long life into the alembic of his ever-fertile imagination, Gold has distilled gold from his uncanny ability to recall conversations, anecdotes, atmosphere, and telling detail. In this age of overheated memoirs, STILL ALIVE! will surely find its way to a grateful audience both young and young at heart.
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Gold was born in Cleveland, Ohio in a Russian Jewish family, 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.
Bachelor, Columbia, 1948. Master of Arts, Columbia, 1949. Postgraduate, University Paris, France, 1951.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Baruch College of City University of New York, 1988.
He moved to New York City at age 17 after several of his poems had been accepted by New York literary magazines. After that, he moved around as he wrote, traveling to Haiti and Detroit, and hitchhiking all over the United States. They later divorced, and he finally settled in San Francisco, where he became an important fixture in the literary scene.
In 1958 Gold taught English Literature at Cornell University, as Vladimir Nabokov"s temporary successor.
Genesis West (Volume(s) 6), was published in the Winter of 1964 with an interview of Herbert Gold by Gordon Lish.
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Married Edith Zubrin, April 1, 1948 (divorced 1956). Children: Ann, Judy; married Melissa Dilworth, January 26, 1968 (divorced 1975). Children— Nina, Ari, Ethan.