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Glen David Gold is the author of the best-selling novel Carter Beats the Devil, which was translated into 14 languages, and named a book of the year by Entertainment Weekly, The LA Times, Publishers Weekly and The Washington Post.  He has written memoir, essays, short stories and journalism for The New York Times Magazine, McSweeney’s, Playboy, Black Clock, Tin House and the Independent UK.  After toiling as a screenwriter for many years, he turned to writing graphic novels for DC (The Spirit) and Dark Horse (the Escapist).  His essays on the comic book artist Jack Kirby have appeared in many journals, as well as in support of the ground-breaking exhibition Masters of American Comics.  His most recent novel, Sunnyside, is also an international best-seller.  Currently, Gold is writing the libretto for an opera, Erdnase, with Gavin Bryars, composer.

On Sunnyside:

“A breathless stupendous novel that recreates both a young brash America on the verge of becoming itself, and Chaplin, one of its most bewitching quixotic citizens. From lighthouse to Hollywood to starlets to war to stardom to madness to genius Gold’s startling narrative carries us across the world and back. Gold proves himself yet again to be the hungriest craftiest funniest and most humane novelist we have.”-- Junot Díaz