About Harry Golden

Harry Lewis Golden (May 6, 1902 – October 2, 1981) was an American writer and newspaper publisher.

 
Golden was born Herschel Goldhirsch (or Goldenhurst) in the shtetl Mikulintsy, Austria-Hungary. His mother Nuchama (nee Klein) was Romanian and his father Leib was Austrian.

In 1904 Leib Goldhirsch, a former Hebrew teacher, emigrated to Winnipeg, Manitoba, only to move the family to New York City the next year and "became an editor of the Jewish Daily Forward."[4]

For a time, Harry worked as a newspaper seller on the Lower East Side and could remember shouting out headlines about the Leo Frank case about which he later wrote a book.[5] As a teenager, he became interested in Georgism, and later spoke on its behalf.[1]

He became a stockbroker but lost his job in the 1929 stock market crash. Convicted of mail fraud because he had held onto funds entrusted and thereby caused a loss to investors, Golden served four years in a Federal prison at Atlanta, Georgia and, decades later President Richard M. Nixon gave Golden a full presidential pardon for the mail fraud conviction.