His graduate study was principally under William T. Sanders, a Mesoamericanist (Master's degree), and Marvin Harris (PhD).
Some other members of his PhD committee were Charles Wagley, the acclaimed South Americanist and Robert Carneiro, curator of the American Museum of Natural History now deceased.
In 1978, while he was doing fieldwork for the Max Planck Institute of Munich, Good was offered a wife named Yarima by her brother, the headman of the village.
Later, Yarima followed Good to the United States where she lived for several years in Gainesville while he completed his Ph.D. before deciding to return to her tribe.
[4] In 2011, one of their sons, David, returned to the jungle to visit his mother and later started a non-profit named The Good Project, dedicated to helping support the future of the Yanomami people.