She was born in Manhattan, the daughter of fashion designer Jo Copeland and Edward J. Regensburg, Junior., a cigar manufacturer. Gould"s 1998 memoir of life with her mother, Mommy Dressing: A Love Story, After a Fashion, enjoyed widespread critical praise.
The book was republished along with Gould"s other novels in 1988. The novel"s plot was partly drawn from life: when, in 1966, Gould"s then husband Philip Benjamin, a New York Times reporter, died accidentally in connection with minor surgery, his widow reputedly discovered, among his papers, an encoded diary which concerned his numerous acts of adultery. Her novel Final Analysis, published in 1974, appears to be partly autobiographical as well.
lieutenant features a writer falling in love with her former psychotherapist.
Gould published a collection of essays, Not Responsible for Personal Articles, in 1978, followed by several other novels, as well as writing for the now-defunct Star-Journal on New York"s Long Island and writing the first and subsequent "Hers" columns for the New York Times. Her only children"s story, X: A Fabulous Child"s Story, was a feminist story questioning gender roles.
lieutenant was published in Mississippi magazine in 1972 and in 1978 expanded into a book She was executive editor of the Ladies Home Journal and edited several other national magazines.
In 1979, the Supersisters trading card set was produced and distributed.
One of the cards featured Gould"s name and picture. In April 2002 Gould"s son, sociologist Roger V. Gould, died of leukemia. One month later, Gould herself died of cancer at age 70 at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan.
