Gerald Jay Goldberg Gerald Jay Goldberg is an American author. He is a professor emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles , a novelist, critic, and author of a nonfiction study of the network news and a biography of Ted Turner .Literary career Goldberg’s best-known work is The Lynching of Orin Newfield , a powerful novel about a “communal murder... in a small farming town in Vermont.” His novels and short stories—ranging widely in setting, subject, and technique—are intense, witty, and elegantly crafted. Reviewers have compared his crisp prose and caustic humor to Nathanael West , Donald Barthelme , Joseph Heller and Thomas McGuane . Saul Bellow’s description of McGuane as "a language star" is, in fact, an apt description for Goldberg as well. His command of metaphor and detail is remarkable, each sentence precisely, relentlessly original. "His prose sparkles," The New York Times wrote, "with well-observed idiosyncrasies." The Chicago Sun-Times ranked Goldberg’s 126 Days of Continuous Sunshine with Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49 for its evocation of “California insanity.” The Los Angeles Herald Examiner praised Heart Payments for its “wonderful textured evocation of the L.A. art scene of the late 1960s.” Writing in Art News magazine's 100th Anniversary Issue, art critic Peter Plagens called Heart Payments "the best novel about an artist I've ever read." Of The Lynching of Orin Newfield , The New Yorker concluded: “The tension and clarity of Mr. Goldberg’s writing leave us no choice but to follow his raging anti-hero’s story from the comparatively mild beginning to the thundering finish.” There was considerable Hollywood interest in Orin Newfield, following its publication in 1970. Though never produced, the novel was optioned by Buck Henry , Victor Drai Productions and James B. Harris. Goldberg himself wrote a screenplay for Universal. Jerry Harvey , programming chief of Los Angeles’s legendary Z channel, nearly succeeded in bringing Orin Newfield to the screen. Before Harvey’s death in 1988, he had arranged for Sam Peckinpah to direct the film. Goldberg’s two nonfiction “media” books were widely acclaimed and translated into several languages. Anchors was reprinted in Reader’s Digest’s Today’s Best Nonfiction . Citizen Turner is, by critical consensus, the best of the many biographies of Turner.Biography After attending the Bronx High School of Science , Goldberg earned his undergraduate degree at Purdue University , where he was a member of the wrestling team and the Purdue Players. He received his master's degree at NYU , and his PhD at University of Minnesota in 1958. His doctoral dissertation was "The Artist as Hero in Modern British Fiction, 1890-1930." Goldberg taught at Dartmouth College and at the University of California , Los Angeles, where he is professor of English emeritus. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Zaragoza , Spain, Williams College and Queens College, City University of New York . He edited Faulkner Studies and co-founded Critique: Studies in Modern Fiction . Goldberg is married to art critic, Nancy Marmer . His brother, Michael Goldberg , was a well-known abstract expressionist painter. His son, Robert Goldberg is a prizewinning writer and filmmaker.Criticism Editor The Modern Critical Spectrum, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1962. The Fate of Innocence, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1965.Fiction Notes from the Diaspora, Hanover, N.H.: Atelier 21, 1962. The National Standard, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston , 1968.The Lynching of Orin Newfield, New York: The Dial Press , 1970. 126 Days of Continuous Sunshine, New York: The Dial Press , 1972.Heart Payments, New York: The Viking Press , 1982. The Paris Directive, New York: Nan A. Talese/Knopf, Doubleday, 2012.Non-fiction Anchors: Brokaw , Jennings , Rather and the Evening News , New York: Birch Lane Press, 1990. Citizen Turner: The Wild Rise of an American Tycoon, New York: Harcourt Brace & Company , 1995.
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