Early Life and Career
Gold is the son of Horace Gold, founding editor of Galaxy Science Fiction magazine. He collaborated on several novels with his father during the 1960s, and they worked on television scripts during this same period. He grew up in New York City and has stated he is friends with many of the writers from science fiction's golden age. He has appeared on panels with Isaac Asimov, Harlan Ellison, and Alfred Bester at science fiction conventions.
As a child, he created and presented his artwork at the Children's Art Carnival at the Museum of Modern Art (1944–49). He has numbered among his friends many of the artists of the Woodstock Art Association where he spent his summers. In the summer of 1953 he attended Camp Woodlands, in Phoenecia, NY. In 1956, he moved to Hollywood, where his mother worked as a story editor for the Ellery Queen and Alfred Hitchcock television shows. He attended Los Angeles City College, Otis Art Institute and showed at Robert Comara and Joan Ankrum Galleries with friend/mentors Fritz Schwaderer and Peter Jan Hirschfeld.
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