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1438480970 epub WINNER OF THE 2022 PAUL COWAN AWARD FOR NON-FICTION WINNER OF THE 2022 LITERARY ENCYCLOPEDIA BOOK PRIZE An authoritative biography of the dean of American proletarian writers during the interwar years. Jewish American Communist writer and cultural figure Michael Gold (1893-1967) was a key progressive author of his generation, yet today his work is too often forgotten. A novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, journalist, and editor, Gold was the leading advocate of leftist, proletarian literature in the United States between the two world wars. His acclaimed autobiographical novel Read more