Michael Gold
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