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Michael Gold

Michael Gold

AmericanApril 12, 1893 – May 14, 1967Proletarian Fiction

Michael Gold was a Communist journalist and novelist whose Jews Without Money presented a raw, polemical portrait of Lower East Side poverty that became a foundational text of American proletarian literature.

Works

  • Jews Without MoneyMemoir of Jewish immigrant life and poverty in lower Manhattan during the 1910s→
  • Life of John BrownBiography of the abolitionist activist John Brown and his crusade against slavery→
  • The Hollow Men→
  • Change the World!Essay collection calling for radical social and political transformation of society→
  • Mike Gold: A Literary AnthologySelected poems, essays, and writings by the leftist writer and critic Mike Gold→

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