Biography
Goldberg was born December 30, 1929 in New York City; BS, Purdue University, 1952; MA, New York University, 1955; Ph.D, University of Minnesota, 1958; assistant professor of English, Dartmouth College (1958-64); assistant professor, 1964-68, associate professor, 1969-73, and in 1974 professor of English at UCLA; The lynching of Orin Newfield was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 1970; other books include: The modern critical spectrum (1962), The fate of innocence (1965), The national standard (1968), A hundred twenty-six days of continuous sunshine (1972), and Heart payments (1982).
From the guide to the Gerald Jay Goldberg papers, 1955-1990, (University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections.)
