# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rebecca-goldstein
# Generated: 2026-09-01T06:41:56.808Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rebecca-goldstein"
name: "Rebecca Goldstein"
slug: "rebecca-goldstein"
description: "Rebecca Goldstein is an American philosopher and novelist. 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."
tagline: "American novelist, short story writer, biographer, philosopher (b. 1950)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Rebecca_Goldstein.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1950-02-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump