[1] Gold attended local schools before studying at the North Carolina State Normal and Industrial College in Greensboro.
[1] She was invited to work as a foreign correspondent in Europe during World War I, but her parents dissuaded her from taking the post.
[1][3] Gold worked at Wilson Times until 1947, writing feature stories about coastal and eastern North Carolina.
[1][4] In 1940 she published the book It Was Forever, a novel about a young married woman from coastal North Carolina who falls in love with a British sea captain.
[1] After her husband's death in 1954, Gold sold their house and built a Neo-Classical two-story home on West Nash Street.