'Rebecca Goldstein does it all. She has written a hilarious novel about people's existential agonies, a page-turner about the intellectual mysteries that obsess them. The characters in 36 Arguments For the Existence of God explore the great moral issues of our day in a novel that is deeply moving and a joy to read.' Jonathan Safran Foer

Rebecca Goldstein's novels include The Mind-Body Problem and Mazel, winner of the 1995 National Jewish Book Award. Her most recent book, Betraying Spinoza won the 2006 Koret International Jewish Book Award. She is the recipient of MacArthur, Guggenheim, and Radcliffe fellowships and in 2005 was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.