Gold published nearly 40 novels in his career, many of which were released to critical acclaim. Yet he rarely received the public attention that went to many of his colleagues, a cohort that included Saul Bellow, William S. That turned out to be his fleeting fling with fame, as he described in a interview with Transatlantic Review. Several new issues of TIME had come out. Several issues of Newsweek had come and gone. There were new celebrities.
Gold was born in Lakewood, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, on March 9, While Cleveland had a large Jewish population, Lakewood did not and that made its mark on Gold. People would chase me home from school. People betrayed me. In he studied at the Sorbonne in Paris on a Fulbright fellowship and worked on his first novel, about an accountant from Ohio who fancied himself a French resistant. His early novels, The Birth of a Hero and the highly praised The Man Who Was Not With It , showed a hipster sensibility in their treatment of heroes working toward self-realization.
He addressed the complexities of Jewish identity in the United States in Fathers and its sequel, Family ; in a novel-memoir that leaned toward autobiography, My Last Two Thousand Years ; and a memoir, Still Alive! A Temporary Condition Like all his work, it was composed on a manual typewriter, Gold preferring that sensibility to electric typewriters or computers.
He also is survived by two brothers, Robert and Eugene; six grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. He was predeceased by another daughter from his first marriage, Judith; and a brother, Sid. Published three times a year by Columbia College for alumni, students, faculty, parents and friends. Columbia Alumni Center W. New York, NY cct columbia. New York, NY ccalumni columbia. Columbia College Today. Summer Issue Contents Online Exclusive.
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