page_title: Michael Goldberg (writer)
hierarchical_section_title: Michael Goldberg (writer)
caption_attribution_description: Michael Goldberg self portrait.
context_page_description: Michael Goldberg is a novelist, journalist, animal rights activist, and pioneering digital music entrepreneur. He is known for his work at Rolling Stone, where he was first a senior writer and later West Coast editor, and for envisioning and co-founding the first web music magazine, Addicted to Noise, in 1994, for which Newsweek included him in its 1995 "Net 50" list of "the 50 People Who Matter Most on the Internet." More recently, he's published the Freak Scene Dream trilogy of '70s coming-of-age novels, and worked actively in animal rights causes.
context_section_description: Michael Goldberg (born July 3, 1963) is a novelist, journalist, animal rights activist, and pioneering digital music entrepreneur. He is known for his work (1983-1993) at Rolling Stone, where he was first a senior writer and later West Coast editor,  and for envisioning and co-founding the first web music magazine, Addicted to Noise, in 1994, for which Newsweek included him in its 1995 "Net 50" list of "the 50 People Who Matter Most on the Internet." More recently, he's published the Freak Scene Dream trilogy of '70s coming-of-age novels (True Love Scars, The Flowers Lied, and Untitled), and worked actively in animal rights causes.
caption: Michael Goldberg self-portrait, used with permission of Michael Goldberg. 	Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License. http://www.daysofthecrazy-wild.com/about/
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