Rebecca Goldstein

REBECCA GOLDSTEIN is a philosopher and novelist, who has taught at Barnard, Rutgers, and Columbia.

She is the author of five novels—The Mind-Body Problem, The Late-Summer Passion of a Woman of Mind, The Dark Sister, Mazel, and Properties of Light—and a collection of stories—Strange Attractors. Her nonfiction works include Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel; and the recently published Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity.

Among her honors are two Whiting Foundation Awards (one in philosophy, one in writing), two National Jewish Book Awards, the Edward Lewis Wallant Award, and the Prairie Schooner Best Short Story Award. In 1996 she was named a MacArthur Foundation Fellow.

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