PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award
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Edition 19 (2009) Winner
Herbert Gold
ハーバート・ゴールド
Hābāto Gōrudo
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1924-03-09 （Lakewood, Ohio）
- Died
- 2023-11-19 （San Francisco, California） age 99
- Nationality
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Religion
- Judaism
- Residence History
- Lakewood, Ohio → New York City → Paris → San Francisco, California
Career
- Occupations
- novelist, essayist
- Active Years
- 1951-2023
- Influenced By
- Allen Ginsberg
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Columbia University | — | Philosophy | AB, AM | 1940s | United States |
| Sorbonne | — | — | — | 1948-1951 | France |
Columbia University
Philosophy
Degree:
AB, AM
Period:
1940s
Year of Graduation:
1948
Country:
United States
BA 1946, MA 1948
Sorbonne
Period:
1948-1951
Country:
France
Fulbright Scholarship
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1948 | Fulbright Scholarship | — | — | Fulbright Program | 受賞 |
Fulbright Scholarship
1948
Organization:
Fulbright Program
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Birth of a Hero
1951 novelFirst book memorializing his hometown Cleveland
hometownfamily
Fathers: A Novel in the Form of a Memoir
1966 novelNovel in the form of a memoir about fathers
familyfatherhood
Waiting for Cordelia
1977 novelNovel about love and relationships
lovemarriage
Bibliography
- Birth of a Hero
- Room Clerk
- The Man Who Was Not With It
- The Optimist
- Therefore Be Bold
- Salt
- Fathers
- The Great American Jackpot
- My Last Two Thousand Years
- The Young Prince and the Magic Cone
- Swiftie the Magician
- Waiting for Cordelia
- Slave Trade
- He/She
- Family
- True Love
- Mister White Eyes
- A Girl of Forty
- Best Nightmare on Earth
- Bohemia
- She Took My Arm As If She Loved Me
- Still Alive!
- When a Psychopath Falls in Love
- Father Verses Sons
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- Beat-adjacent styleCandid and humorous prose
- Recurring Motifs
- lovemarriagefamilyJewish life
Legacy
Prolific American novelist who dissected love and marriage. Beat-adjacent figure in San Francisco literary scene. Wrote 29 novels and more. Died at 99.
Archives
- Columbia University Libraries
- The Bancroft Library
Trivia
- Born to a Russian Jewish family in Ohio.
- Kept distance from Beat Generation.
- Lived over 60 years in Russian Hill, San Francisco.
- Had 5 children, including filmmaker son Ari Gold.