Michael Goldberg (writer)

Michael Goldberg
Michael Goldberg self-portrait
Self-portrait (unknown date)
Born (1953-07-03) July 3, 1953 (age 71)
Oakland, California, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Alma materTamalpais High School
University of California, Santa Cruz

Michael Goldberg (born July 3, 1953) is an American novelist, journalist, animal rights activist, and pioneering digital music entrepreneur. He is known for his work (1983-1993) at Rolling Stone, where he was first a senior writer and later West Coast editor, and for envisioning and co-founding the first web music magazine, Addicted to Noise, in 1994, for which Newsweek included him in its 1995 "Net 50" list of "the 50 People Who Matter Most on the Internet".[1] Between 2014 and the fall of 2016 he published the Freak Scene Dream trilogy of  1970s coming-of-age novels (True Love Scars,[2] The Flowers Lied,[3] and Untitled[4]), and worked actively in animal rights causes. His nonfiction book, Wicked Game: The True Story of Guitarist James Calvin Wilsey[5] (HoZac Books), was published in June of 2022.

  1. ^ "Newsweek Net 50". Newsweek. 24 December 1995.
  2. ^ "True Love Scars". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 2022-06-24.
  3. ^ Goldberg, Michael (2015). The Flowers Lied. Neumu Press. ISBN 9780990398349.
  4. ^ Goldberg, Michael (2017). Untitled. Neumu Press. ISBN 9780990398363.
  5. ^ "Pre-Order: Wicked Game - The True Story of Guitarist James Calvin Wilsey BOOK by Michael Goldberg". HoZac Records. Retrieved 2022-05-17.