Alison Leslie Gold est née et a grandi à New York. Elle a étudié à l'université de Caroline du Nord et à la New School for Social Research de New York.
Ouvrages
Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped Hide the Frank Family, 1988[2].
The Devil's Mistress: The Diary of Eva Braun: The Woman Who Lived and Died with Hitler : A Novel[3].
Memories of Anne Frank: Reflections of a Childhood Friend, 1999.
Clairvoyant: The Imagined Life of Lucia Joyce[4]Fiet's Vase and Other Stories of Survival Europe 1939, 2003[5].