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Goldsborough is a hill in the Pennines, the range of hills and moors running down the middle of Northern England. It is 388 m (1273 ft) high. It lies east of the main watershed of the Pennines, about two miles south of Hury in Baldersdale. It lies in County Durham and within the historic borders of Yorkshire.
The fell lies in a large area of boggy moorland. It can be ascended from Baldersdale or Bowes. Goldsborough has a distinctive flat peak which can be crossed on the Bowes Loop of the Pennine Way.
Goldsborough is a proletarian novel by the German-American writer Stefan Heym.
It depicts a coal miners’ strike during 1949-1950 set in the fictional Goldsborough, Pennsylvania, a company town near Pittsburgh. The protagonist is Carlisle Kennedy, head of a large family and himself a miner. When the local union chief fails to take action against the company, Kennedy leads a wildcat pit strike.
Stefan Heym, a refuge from Hitler’s Germany and a naturalized American, began this novel in the United States after doing site visits with coal miners in Western Pennsylvania, but McCarthyism drove him to East Germany, where he finished writing it in 1952. The book was written and first published in English, in Leipzig, and released by an American publisher a year later, as well as in a German translation.
Heym renounced his American citizenship in response to the beginning of the Korean War and lived in East Germany until his death.