Background
He was born in Kristiansund as a son of William Benjamin Hansen Vold (1874–1943) and Helga Askevold (1875–1930), both teachers.
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He was born in Kristiansund as a son of William Benjamin Hansen Vold (1874–1943) and Helga Askevold (1875–1930), both teachers.
He was a grandnephew of Anders Askevold. They had the son January Erik Vold, a poet. From 1945 he edited the foreign affairs section of Dagbladet.
He was a minor ballot candidate for the Liberal Party in the 1953 election.
During the 1930s he was a correspondent for the newspaper Dagbladet, and was among the Norwegian journalists who most explicitly warned about the emergence of nazism in Germany.