Gold, Michael

The Oxford Companion to American Literature | 1995 | 658 words | Copyright

Gold, Michael, pseudonym of Irwin Granich (1893–1967), born and reared on New York's Lower East Side. His experience of the slums and as a worker led him to become a Communist. He was an editor of The Liberator. His writings include 120 Million (1929), sketches of American workers; Jews Without Money (1930), a semi‐autobiographical work; Change the World (1937), articles from the Daily Worker and the New Masses; The Hollow Men (1941), critical articles on literature; and Life of John Brown (1960), the subject also of a play, Battle Hymn (1936), written with Michael Blankfort. He also wrote several plays of his own, some unpublished.

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