Rebecca Goldstein Biography

Rebecca Newberger Goldstein is a writer whose novels and short stories dramatize the concerns of philosophy without sacrificing the demands of imaginative storytelling. Her books tell a compelling story as they describe with wit, compassion, and originality the interaction of mind and heart. In her fiction, characters confront problems of faith—religious faith and faith in an ability to comprehend the mysteries of the physical world—as complementary to moral and emotional states of being. Goldstein’s writings emerge as brilliant arguments for the belief that fiction in our time may be the best vehicle for involving readers in questions of morality and existence.