Rebecca Goldstein

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Full Name	Rebecca Goldstein
Occupation	Novelist
Date Of Birth	Feb 23, 1950(1950-02-23)
Age	74
Country	United States
Birth City	New York
Horoscope	Aquarius

Rebecca Goldstein Biography

Rebecca Goldstein is one of the most popular and richest Novelist who was born on February 23, 1950 in New York, United States. She was an American fiction writer and philosopher. Five novels were written by her, including The Dark Sister (1993), and Properties of Light ((2000)). She was awarded both a MacArthur Fellowship as well as a Guggenheim Fellowship.

She was a student of She studied under Thomas Nagel at Princeton University., Princeton University.

She married her first husband, physicist Sheldon Goldstein, in 1969, and they divorced in 1999. They are the parents of the novelist Yael Goldstein Love and poet Danielle Blau. In a 2006 interview with Luke Ford, Goldstein said:

In 1983, Goldstein published her first novel, The Mind-Body Problem, a serio- comic tale of the conflict between emotion and intelligence, combined with reflections on the nature of mathematical genius, the challenges faced by intellectual women, and Jewish tradition and identity. Goldstein said she wrote the book to “…insert ‘real life’ intimately into the intellectual struggle. In short I wanted to write a philosophically motivated novel.”

She was born in White Plains, New York. Later, she married cognitive psychologist She was raised in White Plains, New York. She later married cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker..

Rebecca Goldstein Net Worth

Rebecca Goldstein is one of the richest Novelist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Rebecca Goldstein 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

After graduating from Barnard College she received her Ph.D.

For her 1995 novel Mazel, she was awarded the National Jewish Book Award.

Rebecca Newberger Goldstein (born February 23, 1950) is an American philosopher, novelist and public intellectual. She has written ten books, both fiction and nonfiction. She holds a Ph.D. in philosophy of science from Princeton University and is sometimes grouped with novelists such as Richard Powers and Alan Lightman, who create fiction that is knowledgeable of, and sympathetic toward, science.

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Who is Rebecca Goldstein Dating?

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In 2007 she married cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker.

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Rebecca Ranked on the list of most popular Novelist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Rebecca Goldstein celebrates birthday on February 23 of every year.

In addition to Barnard, Goldstein has taught at Columbia, Rutgers, and Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and since 2014 she has been a visiting professor at the New College of the Humanities in London. In 2016 she was a Visiting Professor in the Department of English at New York University. She has held visiting fellowships at the Radcliffe Institute, Brandeis University, the Santa Fe Institute, Yale University, and Dartmouth College. In 2011, she delivered the Tanner Lectures on Human Values at Yale University, titled “The Ancient Quarrel: Philosophy and Literature.” She serves on the Council on Values of the World Economic Forum and serves on the Advisory Board of the Secular Coalition for America.

Top Facts about Rebecca Goldstein

1. Rebecca Goldstein is an American philosopher and writer born in 1950.
2. She has a PhD in philosophy from Princeton University.
3. Goldstein has written several novels, including “The Mind-Body Problem.”
4. She won the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction in 2014.
5. Goldstein is a recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship (1996).
6. She was married to physicist Steven Weinberg from 1985 to 1997.
7. Goldstein has taught at Barnard College and Rutgers University.
8. Her work explores themes of reason, religion, and identity.
9. In addition to her fiction writing, she has published numerous philosophical essays.
10. Goldstein is also a public intellectual who frequently speaks on science and philosophy topics.