Author Biography

Rebecca Goldstein is author of The Mind-Body Problem, The Late-Summer Passion of a Woman of Mind,The Dark Sister, Strange Attractors, and Properties of Light: A Novel of Love, Betrayal, and Quantum Physics. A MacArthur Prize Fellow, she is professor of philosophy at Trinity College.

Rebecca Goldstein graduated summa cum laude from Barnard College and immediately went on to graduate work at Princeton university, receiving her Ph.D. in Philosophy. Her work was primarily concentrated on philosophy of science and she was supported by a National Science Foundation Fellowship.

After earning her Ph.D., she returned to her alma Mater, where she taught analytic philosophy. It was some time during her tenure at Barnard that she found, as she puts it, "her itch for fiction developing into a full-blown case of authorship." She used a summer vacation between semesters to write her first novel, The Mind-Body Problem, which was published by Random House. More novels followed: The Late-Summer Passion of Woman of Mind, The Dark Sister, which received the Whiting Writers Award, and Mazel, which received the 1995 National Jewish Book Honor Award.

In 1996 she became a MacArthur Prize Fellow, receiving the prize which is popularly as the "Genius Award."