![]() But then he heard that anyone that volunteered for the Navy would be let in even if they would be rejected by the Army or Air Force. ![]() He preferred service in the Navy but was not sure if they would let him in given that he was color blind and wore glasses. Three years later in 1945 he graduated from high school and was determined to fight for his country. As a teen, he went to Grafton Street Junior High School and was so certain that the Second World War would be over before he would be drafted. Worcester, where the author spent much of his childhood was a working-class neighborhood and he has asserted that he loved it. He had left Sarah Melnikoff, Noah’s grandmother behind and the woman who would be like a second mother to him lived with the family for more than three decades. He had been by all accounts a wonderful man who ran a bookbinding business. He was named after his paternal grandmother Noah Melnikoff that was deceased a few months earlier. He was born on Armistice Day on November 11, 1926, as the second child of Robert Gordon and his wife Rose Gordon. Noah Gordon is a literary and historical fiction author born in Worcester Massachusetts. ![]()
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