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Biography
Nora Gold (born 1952) is a Canadian author and the founder and editor of Jewish Fiction .net.
Background
Nora Gold was born in Montreal in 1952. The daughter of the late Alan B. Gold, former chief justice of the Superior Court of Quebec, and Lynn Lubin Gold, a professor of English literature, Gold received her BSW from McGill University and her MSW and PhD in social work from the University of Toronto. From 1990 to 2000 she was an associate professor at McMaster University, before leaving academe to pursue writing full time. She currently serves as writer-in-residence and associate scholar at the Centre for Women's Studies in Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto.
Writing
Gold's first book, Marrow and Other Stories, was published in 1998 by Warwick. It received a Canadian Jewish Book Award and was shortlisted for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award.
In 2014 Gold published her first novel, Fields of Exile, which won the 2015 Canadian Jewish Literary Award (for Best Novel).
In May 2016, Gold's second novel, The Dead Man, was published by Inanna Publications.