caption movement death_date death_place birth_name birth_place religion imagesize nationality relatives profession notableworks birth_date image article_title name occupation
mike -rrb- gold before a new york crowd -lrb- 1930s proletarian literature 14 may 1967 terra linda , california itzok isaac granich lower east side , new york city atheist 250px american max brother -rrb- , grace granich -lrb- sister-in-law -rrb- granich -lrb- brother -rrb- , george granich -lrb- journalism '' jews without money '' 12 april 1894 gold-michael . jpg mike gold
 michael gold editor , author , literary critic
mike gold

michael `` mike '' gold -lrb- april 12 , 1894 -- may 14 , 1967 -rrb- was the pen-name of jewish american writer itzok isaac granich .
a lifelong communist , gold was a novelist and literary critic .
his semi-autobiographical novel `` jews without money '' -lrb- 1930 -rrb- was a bestseller .
during the 1930s and 1940s gold was considered the preeminent author and editor of u.s. proletarian literature .
