Michael Gold

Michael Gold (April 12, 1893 – May 14, 1967) was the pen-name of Jewish-American writer Itzhok Isaak Granich. A lifelong communist, Gold was a novelist, journalist, magazine editor, newspaper columnist, playwright, and literary critic. His semi-autobiographical novel Jews without Money (1930) was a bestseller.

During the 1930s and 1940s, Gold was considered the preeminent author and editor of U.S. proletarian literature.