A Golden Story is an intimate and poignant novella about a romantic relationship that cannot be consummated, but, tragically, also cannot be sublimated into a Platonic one. A story this intimate can only be autobiographical.
About the Author
Daisy Aldan was born in 1923 in New York City to Louis Aldan, a designer, and Esther Edelheit Aldan, an actress. She received a B.A. degree from Hunter College in 1943, and an M.A. from Brooklyn College in 1948, and did further graduate study at New
York University. While primarily known as a poet, editor, and translator, she has given readings and lectured extensively throughout the United States, Switzerland, India, France, and Germany. She has also taught English, creative writing, literature, speech,
and film studies at the New York School of Art and Design, Emerson College (Sussex, England), the Rudolf Steiner Institute (NY), and at the Goetheanum (Switzerland). Aldan, while part of the New York City poetry scene of the 1950s and 1960s, is not well
known outside urban literary circles. She was aware of and friends with the Beats, but her style was more influenced by modern French poetry and metaphysics. Aldan has said that her primary motivation is “to bring a renewal of the WORD into the world.” Aldan was recognized by Epoch, Cornell University’s literary magazine, as one of America’s fifty best poets.
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