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Travels in San Francisco
Master storyteller Herbert Gold takes readers on a tour of San Francisco's colorful cafes and restaurants, its multifaceted neighborhoods, its public places and beaches, its flower-power nostalgia, eighties energies, and trends for the nineties and the age of Bushismo.
"Few writers are as temperamentally suited to capture San Francisco, either historically or esthetically, as Herbert Gold…The result is a collection of stories and essays that speak not only to that geographical location of Northern California, but to the much more vast region of the human heart as well." -- The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)
Novelist and journalist Herbert Gold has lived in San Francisco for over 30 years. His novels include Fathers, A Girl of Forty, and Dreaming. 14 photographs.
"Few writers are as temperamentally suited to capture San Francisco, either historically or esthetically, as Herbert Gold…The result is a collection of stories and essays that speak not only to that geographical location of Northern California, but to the much more vast region of the human heart as well." -- The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)
Novelist and journalist Herbert Gold has lived in San Francisco for over 30 years. His novels include Fathers, A Girl of Forty, and Dreaming. 14 photographs.
212 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1989
About the author
Herbert Gold
126 books35 followersSan Francisco literary icon Herbert Gold was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1924. After several of his poems were accepted by literary magazines as a teenager, he studied philosophy at Columbia University, where he befriended writers who would define the Beat Generation, from Anaïs Nin to Allen Ginsberg. Gold won a Fulbright fellowship and moved to Paris, where he did graduate studies at the Sorbonne and worked on his first novel Birth of a Hero, published in 1951.
Gold wrote more than thirty books, including the bestsellers Fathers and The Man Who Was Not With It and received many awards, including the Sherwood Anderson Award for Fiction, the Commonwealth Club Gold Medal, and the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award. He also taught at the University of California at Berkeley, and at Stanford, Cornell, and Harvard.
Gold returned to writing poetry in the last years of his life, creating the book Father Verses Sons, A Correspondence in Poems with his sons, filmmaker Ari Gold and musician Ethan Gold, which was finalized in the weeks before his death, and is now being published by Rare Bird Lit. He also acted in a companion film, Brother Verses Brother coming in late 2024.
Gold wrote more than thirty books, including the bestsellers Fathers and The Man Who Was Not With It and received many awards, including the Sherwood Anderson Award for Fiction, the Commonwealth Club Gold Medal, and the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award. He also taught at the University of California at Berkeley, and at Stanford, Cornell, and Harvard.
Gold returned to writing poetry in the last years of his life, creating the book Father Verses Sons, A Correspondence in Poems with his sons, filmmaker Ari Gold and musician Ethan Gold, which was finalized in the weeks before his death, and is now being published by Rare Bird Lit. He also acted in a companion film, Brother Verses Brother coming in late 2024.
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