Carol Gould

For the English long-distance runner with the same name see Carol Gould (athlete)

Carol Gould (born 1953 in Philadelphia, USA) is an expatriate American author and film maker living in England. She has written articles for major UK papers and appeared on the BBC Any Questions radio program as a panelist in 2006 and in 2008. She is the editor of Current Viewpoint magazine and is a regular contributor to British Sky Broadcasting - Sky News political programming.

Gould attended the Philadelphia High School for Girls and Temple University, moving to its London campus in 1976 where she studied documentary film history with Edgar Anstey.

In 1977 her first plays, Virgo Rising and Barking to the Angel, were produced in London. In 1980 she had a successful play, A Chamber Group, about a contemporary music ensemble, at the Edinburgh Festival. In 1981 She became Associate Head of Drama at Anglia Television. She was also for ten years commissioning editor and associate producer/script editor for international Drama seen on PBS. She worked with John Rosenberg (American) and Sir John Woolf (British). Her credits included Tales of the Unexpected and Cause Célèbre by Sir Terence Rattigan, six P.D. James thrillers, and adaptations of Somerset Maugham and Eric Ambler.

She began making documentaries in 1996 and produced a feature-length film, Long Night's Journey Into Day about Israel after the death of Yitzhak Rabin, which premiered at the 1997 Berlin Film Festival. Since 1997 she has made fifteen documentaries in Britain and South Africa.

She wrote a comment feature for The Guardian in 2004 about her encounters with USA-hatred in Britain. She is a vocal critic of what she sees as increasing anti-Americanism and antisemitism in Britain. This is causing her to contemplate leaving Britain for good.

She is working on a play about the nineteenth century British engineer, Isambard Kingdom Brunel and a screenplay about the weekend of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. She has made a film in 2008 about wartime African-American ‘GI babies.'

Her book Don't Tread on Me is about anti-Americanism in Britain and will be published by Social Affairs Unit in the UK and Encounter Books in the USA on October 25, 2008. The paperback of her 1998 novel Spitfire Girls about the women pilots of World War II, will be published by Random House in the UK and Canada in June 2009.

References

• Interviews With Extraordinary People. Carol Gould: Pro-American, Pro-Israeli, Who Lives In Londonistan For Comic Relief Interview by Phyllis Chesler, October 15, 2007. Accessed August 2008.
• Carol Gould's biography at iamadiva.com. Accessed August 2008
• Carol Gould's profile at doollee.com. Lists all of Gould's plays. Accessed August 2008
• BBC Any Questions Accessed August 2008
• American Scapegoat in London Guardian Comment October 16, 2004, accessed September 2008

External links

• Carol Gould's own website
• Review of Carol Gould's novel Spitfire Girls