Jerome Gold is the author of fourteen books, including The Moral Life of Soldiers and the memoir, Paranoia & Heartbreak: Fifteen Years in a Juvenile Facility . Russell Banks said about this book: "I've finished reading Jerome Gold's terrific book cover to cover without a break. It's a powerful and very tenderhearted book without a soupçon of sentimentality. Unforgettable!" Mr. Gold's novels include Sergeant Dickinson , about which the New York Times Book Review said: "[It] belongs on the high, narrow shelf of first-rate fiction about battlefield experience." He has published stories, essays, reviews and poems in Chiron Review, Moon City Review, Fiction Review, Boston Review, Hawaii Review , and other journals.