Michael Gold

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Michael Gold (1893–1967) was the pen-name of Jewish-American writer Itzhok Isaak Granich. Gold was a novelist, journalist, magazine editor, newspaper columnist, playwright, and literary critic. His semi-autobiographical novel Jews Without Money (1930) was a bestseller. During the 1930s and 1940s, Gold was considered the preeminent author and editor of US proletarian literature.