The Gold, Herbert mss., 1950-2018 contains correspondence by American novelist Herbert Gold (1924-). Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Gold moved to New York City as a young man and published several poems in the city's magazines. He studied at Columbia University, and later won a Fulbright Scholarship to Paris. There, Gold, finished his first novel Birth of a Hero (1951). He is known for that work along with others including Salt (1963), Fathers: A Novel in the Form of a Memoir (1967), and Waiting for Cordelia (1977). In 1958, after Vladimir Nabokov's retirement from teaching at Cornell University, Gold also briefly taught English Literature as Nabokov's successor.