Alison Leslie Gold Explained

Alison Leslie Gold
Birth Date:13 July 1945
Birth Place:New York City, U.S.
Notableworks:
  • Anne Frank Remembered
  • The Clairvoyant
  • The Devil's Mistress

Alison Leslie Gold (born July 13, 1945) is an American author. Her books include Anne Frank Remembered, Clairvoyant: the Imagined Life of Lucia Joyce, The Devil's Mistress, and Memories of Anne Frank. She has written literary fiction as well as books for young people on a wide range of subjects including alcoholic intervention and the Holocaust as experienced by the young.[1] [2] Her work has been translated into more than 25 languages.

Biography

Gold was born on July 13, 1945, in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up in Bayside, Queens.[3] [4] She was educated at the University of North Carolina, Mexico City College and the New School for Social Research in New York City. She currently shares her time between New York City and a small island in Greece.[5] [6] [7]

Gold has three siblings: poet Ted Greenwald,[8] bed-and-breakfast owner Nancy Greenwald[9] and film director Maggie Greenwald. Her son Thor Gold[10] is a film-maker.

Writing

Gold's books have been reviewed in The Times Literary Supplement, The Guardian, The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune and O, The Oprah Magazine, among others.

Gold has described herself as a "salvager of other people's stories"[11] and is most widely known for her work related to the Holocaust. Her book Anne Frank Remembered was co-written with Miep Gies, the employee of Otto Frank who hid Anne Frank and rescued Anne's diary.[12] Gold similarly worked with Anne Frank's childhood friend Hannah (Hanneli) Goslar to write Memories of Anne Frank: Reflections of a Childhood Friend.[13] On the occasion of the publication of Anne Frank Remembered, Elie Wiesel said of Anne Frank Remembered: "Let us give recognition to Alison Gold. Without her and her talent of persuasion, without her writer's talent, too, this poignant account, vibrating with humanity, would not have been written."[14] Isaac Bashevis Singer commended Ann Frank Remembered as "Beautifully written".[15] Fiet's Vase, Gold's collection of Holocaust survival accounts, was described by one reviewer as having "language as transparent as pure water";[16] according to another reviewer, each story "reads like a miracle, a silver chalice excavated from dust."[17]

Gold's non-Holocaust work has not been as consistently well received. For example, some critics did not like the blend of historical fact and fictional elements in The Clairvoyant, an "imagined history" of the life of Lucia Joyce, the daughter of James Joyce. The Los Angeles Times observed that "so much is fabricated in Clairvoyant that anyone who reads it unaware of the real lives of James and Lucia Joyce will be led far off the mark".[18] However, Irish author Padraic O'Farrell described Clairvoyant as "brilliantly innovative and movingly written".[19] According The Times Literary Supplement, Gold's most recent work, the autobiographical Found and Lost, "captures the rough texture of lived experience in a way that often eludes more straightforward autobiography".[20]

Recognition

Adaptations

Bibliography

Adult non-fiction

Adult fiction

Young adult

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Writers, Translators, and Artists of the Center for Writers and Translators The American University of Paris. www.aup.edu. 2016-08-31. https://web.archive.org/web/20160914214518/https://www.aup.edu/academics/research-centers/center-writers-translators/writers-translators-artists. September 14, 2016. dead. mdy-all.
  2. Web site: Mentors: Alison Leslie Gold - Los Angeles Review of Books. December 28, 2011 . en-US. 2016-08-31.
  3. Via Newsday. "Story of Anne Frank's life retold by woman who helped hide her", The York Dispatch, May 11, 1987. Accessed May 12, 2023, via Newspapers.com. "Gold who grew up in Bayside, Queens, was working on a TV project about Bergen-Belsen four years ago when she learned about the Gies family and their role in the Frank story"
  4. Web site: Biography - Alison Leslie Gold. www.alisonlesliegold.com. 2016-08-31.
  5. Web site: hydraecologists: Literary lions and lines of Hydra. hydraseal.blogspot.no. 2016-08-31.
  6. Web site: Alison Leslie Gold mediterranean poetry. www.odyssey.pm. May 27, 2010 . 2016-05-09.
  7. Web site: Alison Leslie Gold, Kluitman.
  8. Web site: Remembering Ted Greenwald, The Poetry Foundation.
  9. Web site: The Arbor Bed and Breakfast.
  10. Web site: IMDB Thor Gold. .
  11. Web site: Alison Leslie Gold, 'salvager of other people's stories'. Miller. George. 7 March 2018. Podularity.
  12. News: Facing Down the Gestapo. The New York Times. Terrence. Des Pres. 1987-05-10. 2018-12-12.
  13. Memories of Anne Frank: Reflections of a Childhood Friend. Publishers Weekly. 1997-09-29. 2018-12-12.
  14. Web site: From the archives: Elie Wiesel on Anne Frank. Chicago Tribune. Elie. Wiesel. Elie Wiesel. Martha Liptzin. Hauptman. 2015-04-09. 2016-09-05.
  15. Quotation published on back cover, first hardcover edition of Anne Frank Remembered, Simon & Schuster, 1987
  16. Quotation published on back cover of first hardcover edition of Fiet's Vase, Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, 2003
  17. Medwick. Cathleen. September 2003. Fall Fiction. O, Oprah Magazine. 202.
  18. News: Messing with History. Los Angeles Times. Brenda. Maddox. 1992-08-09. 2018-12-12.
  19. O'Farrell. Padraic. 6 July 1991. Book review. Langford Reader .
  20. Kelley. Stephanie. 20 April 2018. Book review. The Times Literary Supplement.

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