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Herbert Gold Papers, 1942-2011, Bulk 1960-1995 http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8g44nq1 No online items Finding Aid to the Herbert Gold Papers, 1942-2011, bulk 1960-1995 Finding Aid written by Dean Smith The Bancroft Library University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, California, 94720-6000 Phone: (510) 642-6481 Fax: (510) 642-7589 Email: [email protected] URL: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/ © 2007 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Finding Aid to the Herbert Gold BANC MSS 2011/186 1 Papers, 1942-2011, bulk 1960-1995 Finding Aid to the Herbert Gold Papers, 1942-2011, bulk 1960-1995 Collection Number: BANC MSS 2011/186 The Bancroft Library University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, California Finding Aid Written By: Dean Smith Date Completed: May 2012 © 2012 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Collection Summary Collection Title: Herbert Gold papers Date (inclusive): 1942-2011, Date (bulk): bulk 1960-1995 Collection Number: BANC MSS 2011/186 Creators : Gold, Herbert, 1924- Extent: Number of containers: 23 cartons, 1 boxLinear feet: 30 Repository: The Bancroft Library University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, California, 94720-6000 Phone: (510) 642-6481 Fax: (510) 642-7589 Email: [email protected] URL: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/ Abstract: The Herbert Gold papers consist of writings (articles, essays, fiction, non-fiction, interviews, plays, poetry, screenplays, journals and notes), correspondence, legal files, news clippings and audio/visual materials which span the length of Gold's literary career. Languages Represented: Collection materials are in English Physical Location: Many of the Bancroft Library collections are stored offsite and advance notice may be required for use. For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog. Access Collection is open for research. Publication Rights All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the Head of Public Services, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 94720-6000. Consent is given on behalf of The Bancroft Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner. See: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/reference/permissions.html. Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research and educational purposes. Preferred Citation [Identification of item], Herbert Gold Papers, BANC MSS 2011/186, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. Alternate Forms Available There are no alternate forms of this collection. Indexing Terms Finding Aid to the Herbert Gold BANC MSS 2011/186 2 Papers, 1942-2011, bulk 1960-1995 The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog. American literature--20th century Bohemianism Beat generation Haiti--Description and travel Haiti--Social conditions Gold, Herbert, 1924--Journeys--Haiti Gold, Herbert, 1924--Archives Authors, American--California--20th century Acquisition Information The Herbert Gold papers were purchased by The Bancroft Library from Herbert Gold in 2011. Accruals No additions are expected. System of Arrangement Arranged to the folder level. Processing Information Processed by Dean Smith in 2011-2012. Biographical Information Herbert (Herb) Gold was born on March 9, 1924 in Cleveland, Ohio and raised in Lakewood, a suburb. After graduating high school, Gold served a brief stint in the military then spent a year hitchhiking around the country, taking odd jobs, and writing poems. His parents wanted him to stay in Cleveland and attend college there and then go on to medical school. Instead, he was accepted at Columbia College in New York and studied philosophy. While in New York, Gold fell in with the upcoming Beat Generation and got to know many of the writers who would give the generation its name (including poet Allen Ginsberg, with whom he maintained an on-again, off-again friendship for decades). Upon winning a Fulbright Scholarship, Gold moved to Paris with his first wife, Edith Zubrin, attending the University of Paris, where he finished his first novel ( Birth of a Hero, published in 1951) that launched his literary career. Gold's marriage to Zubrin ended in divorce (they had two daughters, Ann and Judith). To pay child support Gold became, as he called it, "the writing factory" and wrote regularly for Playboy and its imitators - not always using his real name. Gold moved around for some time, living in Haiti, Detroit, and hitchhiking around America. His experiences in Haiti (he returned numerous times throughout his career) was to have a profound and lasting impact resulting in works of fiction ( Slave Trade), non-fiction ( Best Nightmare on Earth), and numerous essays and articles. By the mid 1960s, Gold finally settled in San Francisco in time to chronicle the cultural and social upheaval of that era and the city that was a nexus of the counter-culture. Becoming an important fixture in the Bay Area literary scene, Gold's reportage of San Francisco, the mores and manners of its cultural life written with a mixture of love and biting irony, was published in works of fiction and in articles for the press and magazines. In the late 1980s, he wrote a weekly series, Travels in San Francisco, articles about various aspects of the city's life and denizens for the San Francisco Chronicle. He met his second wife, Melissa Dilworth, just around the time Fathers : A Novel in Form of a Memoir (1966), his most successful novel, was published. He had a daughter and twin boys with Dilworth though this marriage also ended in divorce. Although Gold has always been continuously linked to bohemian society, given his association with the Beat poets and authors, his Jewish heritage has been another deep abiding concern and influenced his writing as a whole, that of being an "outsider" looking in on a dominant Christian-American society. Scope and Content of Collection The Herbert Gold papers consist of writings (articles, essays, fiction, non-fiction, interviews, plays, poetry, screenplays, journals and notes), correspondence, legal files, news clippings and audio/visual materials which span the length of Gold's literary career. Finding Aid to the Herbert Gold BANC MSS 2011/186 3 Papers, 1942-2011, bulk 1960-1995 Series 1Articles 1954-2010 Subseries 1.1Individual 1954-2010 Series 1 Articles 1954-2010 Physical Description: Cartons 1-3; Carton 4, folders 1-40 Arrangement Arranged hierarchically. Subseries 1.1 Individual 1954-2010 Physical Description: Cartons 1-3; Carton 4, folders 1-37 Arrangement Arranged alphabetically. Carton 1, Folder 1 Above the Riviera: Vence & Saint-Paul-de-Vence undated Carton 1, Folder 2 The Addict is Finally a Star at His Funeral undated Carton 1, Folder 3 Advanced Sub-acute Thinking undated Carton 1, Folder 4 The Affable Ancientry of Quebec City July 1988 Carton 1, Folder 5 After Cocaine, Haiti's Most Successful Export Product-Kneejerkism undated Carton 1, Folder 6 All Day, All Night...San Francisco January 1995 Carton 1, Folder 7 Allen Ginsberg Rode Out of the East April 1997 Carton 1, Folder 8 Another Slant on Telegraph Hill undated Carton 1, Folder 9 At the Tomb of the Unknown President October-November 1974 Carton 1, Folder Attack of the Food Inflation Fungus December 2002- March 2003 10 Carton 1, Folder Aulde Lanxiety: The Nostalgia Bars of San Francisco undated 11 Carton 1, Folder The Berkeley Scene March-May 1966 12-13 Carton 1, Folder Bewitched, Bothered, and Begoogled undated 14 Carton 1, Folder Big Sur Did Not Slide Into the Sea May 1983 15 Carton 1, Folder Black and White and Distressed All Over undated 16 Carton 1, Folder Bohemia by the Bay October-November 1995 17 Carton 1, Folder The Bomb and the Captain's Blue Cashmere Coat undated 18 Carton 1, Folder The Boy Who Lived in Fire 1962-1964 19 Carton 1, Folder This Bozo Thinks He was at the Summer of Love... 1997 20 Carton 1, Folder Brain Tune-ups in the Burger King Age undated 21 Carton 1, Folder Broadway: The Street in San Francisco 1964 22 Carton 1, Folder Brush with the Law May 1994 23 Carton 1, Folder The Cab Driver Who Didn't Want To Be a Writer undated 24 Carton 1, Folder Cambridge-on-the-Charles December 1992 25 Carton 1, Folder Can Leo Buscaglia Find Love in the Arms of Seven Million Reader's? March-June 26 1983 Carton 1, Folder Can We Use So Much Culture in America's Great Metropolitan Village? May 2003 27 Carton 1, Folder Cannery Row 1982 1982 28 Finding Aid to the Herbert Gold BANC MSS 2011/186 4 Papers, 1942-2011, bulk 1960-1995 Series 1Articles 1954-2010 Subseries 1.1Individual 1954-2010 Carton 1, Folder Capping the Volcano July-October 1983 29 Carton 1, Folder Carnival Season in Haiti 1999 February 1999 30 Carton 1, Folder Carnival Time in Port-au-Prince 1998 January-February 1998 31 Carton 1, Folder The Case of the Artificial Sugar Beverage Called "Coffee" undated 32 Carton 1, Folder Change in the Eighties October 1981 33 Carton 1, Folder Chasing the Ice Dragon's Tail August 1989 34 Carton 1, Folder Chicken-Wing Deviationism undated 35 Carton 1, Folder Christmas in Mauritius with the Good Doctor Liddlebit undated 36 Carton 1, Folder A Cockfight in Haiti undated 37 Carton 1, Folder Confessions from the Manual Typewriter Underground undated 38 Carton 1, Folder A Confluence of Plagues September
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