Rebecca Newberger Goldstein

philosopher, novelist

Rebecca Newberger Goldstein is a philosopher, scholar, and award-winning novelist. Her latest novel is *36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction*. Her books include the novels *The Mind-Body Problem*, *Properties of Light*, and *Mazel*, and nonfiction studies of Kurt Godel and Baruch Spinoza. A recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 1996, Goldstein has also received Guggenheim and Radcliffe fellowships and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.