- Has a son, Ian Matthew Gold.
- Lived in Boston since the early 1970s.
- His wife, Vera, was the founder and director of 96 Inc, a not-for-profit literary magazine, resource and artists' collaborative in Boston, MA.
- Teacher of creative writing at Columbia University, 1964-1965. Served as lecturer on literature at Bard College 1971-1972, at Boston University, 1974-1976, and at Brandeis 1976-1977, among others.
- B.A. from Columbia University in 1953. Served in the Army from 1953 to 1955. Second B.A. from School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London in 1959. Some graduate study at the University of Barcelona, 1959-1960.
- Son of businessman Murray Arthur Gold and Syd Hartman Gold.
- Free-lance writer and sometime postal worker. Author of short-story collection Nickel Miseries (1963) and novels Sick Friends (1969) and Sams in a Dry Season (1990), the latter about an alcoholic.
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