She was a graduate of Radcliffe College and moved to San Francisco, where she married Herbert Gold, a writer.

"I love that the business is continuing in the family," Herbert Gold said as Melissa Gold, his great-niece, stood nearby.

Our reviewer, Herbert Gold, described the author as "ironic and discreet," praising the novel's conclusion for "its special distanced note of grieved attention."

Herbert Gold wrote, "He fled in order to find himself, then prayed to flee that disease of self, to become 'beautiful and clear.'"

Herbert Gold, critic for Reviewmanship.

Or, as the novelist Herbert Gold put it, "happy stories about happy people with happy problems."

Herbert Gold (born March 9, 1924) is an American novelist.

Herbert Gold in News from the Republic of Letters:

Herbert Gold is too aphoristic for his own good, and a little too cute.

Foreword by Herbert Gold.