Rob Goldberg

Gerald Jay Goldberg (December 30, 1929 – June 2, 2020) was an American author. He was a professor emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he taught English and American literature and Creative Writing. An acclaimed novelist, he was also a critic and the author (with Robert Goldberg) of a nonfiction study of the network news and a biography of Ted Turner. After attending the Bronx High School of Science, Goldberg earned his undergraduate degree at Purdue University (BS, 1952), where he was a member of the wrestling team and the Purdue Players. He received his master's degree at NYU (MA 1955), 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 (1958–1964) and at the University of California, Los Angeles (1964–1991), where he was professor of English emeritus. He was a visiting professor at the University of Zaragoza, Spain (Fulbright professorship, 1962–63), Williams College (1981) and Queens College, City University of New York (1985–87). With Nancy Marmer, he co-edited Faulkner Studies and was the co-founder of Critique: Studies in Modern Fiction.In 1954, Goldberg married art critic, Nancy Marmer (formerly managing editor and book review editor of Art in America). Their son, Robert Goldberg (formerly TV critic for The Wall Street Journal) is a prizewinning writer and filmmaker.

Goldberg's brother, Michael Goldberg (1924–2007), was a well-known abstract expressionist painter.