December 1st, 2002
Ed Goldberg was born in The Bronx in 1943. After dropping out of college in 1962, he attempted to do stand-up comedy, unsuccessfully. He wrote for a few of the underground papers in New York. After moving to Washington, D.C. in 1973, he became a technical writer and wrote features and reviews for a monthly arts and entertainment paper. In 1991, he moved to Portland, Ore. and finished Served Cold, winner of the 1995 Shamus Award for best original paperback fiction. His third novel, True Crime, (as “Alan Gold”) was published in February 2005. True Faith was published in January 2007. He is currently working on a new book. His Black Lamb column is called The Bronx Zoo.
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