Rebecca Newberger Goldstein is a philosopher and novelist. She is the author of eight books, including the novels The Mind-Body Problem and Properties of Light: A Novel of Love, Betrayal and Quantum Physics. Her last two books were non-fiction: Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Godel and Betraying Spinoza. She has received many awards for her fiction and scholarship, including a MacArthur, and is currently at work on a novel.