Glen David Gold

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born

January 01, 1964

gender

male

website

http://www.glendavidgold.com

genre

Historical Fiction

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Glen David Gold is best known as the author of Carter Beats the Devil (Hyperion, 2001), a fictionalized biography of Charles Joseph Carter (1874-1936), an American illusionist performing from c.1900-1936. He writes in a narrative style, and the book was hailed as a very respectable venture into historical fiction. Gold is married to Alice Sebold, the author of The Lovely Bones and Lucky. The couple lives in San Francisco, California. His next novel, Sunnyside, is due for publication in May 12th, 2009. His short stories, including "The Tears of Squonk," have appeared in a number of issues of McSweeney's.

Gold wrote a single episode of the cartoon show Hey Arnold, in which title character Arnold stages an amateur magic show and "disappears" hi...more

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Average rating: 3.85 · 7,315 ratings · 899 reviews · 6 distinct works

	Carter Beats the Devil 4.07 avg rating — 4,367 ratings — published 2001 — 20 editions	My rating:
	Sunnyside 3.36 avg rating — 596 ratings — published 2009 — 15 editions	My rating:
	McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales by Michael Chabon (editor / contributor), Jim Shepard, Elmore Leonard 3.53 avg rating — 1,705 ratings — published 2003 — 9 editions	My rating:
	The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist: Volume 1 by Michael Chabon, Kevin McCarthy, Glen David Gold 3.41 avg rating — 610 ratings — published 2004 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Fourth World Omnibus, Vol. 3 by Jack Kirby, Mike Royer (Illustrator), Glen David Gold (Introduction) 4.36 avg rating — 121 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Masters of American Comics by Brian Walker (Editor), Robert Storr (Contribution by), Paul Karasik (Editor) 4.08 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 2005	My rating:
	Houdini by Jason Lutes, Nick Bertozzi, Glen David Gold (Introduction) 3.41 avg rating — 428 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Glen David Gold

“In his youth, [he] had believed everything was possible. Then in grief, he believed everything was impossible. And now. . . he felt that when you had lived enough of your life, there was no difference between the two.”
― Glen David Gold

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“He felt people were never intentionally beastly or malicious, but they were pompous and foolish; awful decisions were made by men divorced from their own humanity.”
― Glen David Gold, Sunnyside

5 people liked it

“There were never moments in your life when you actually saw something end, for whether you knew it or not something else was always flowering. Never a disappearance, always a transformation.”
― Glen David Gold, Carter Beats the Devil

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