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  • Sophie's World: A Novel about the History of Philosophy (30th Anniversary Edition)

    Sophie's World: A Novel about the History of Philosophy (30th Anniversary Edition) - Paperback

    Sophie's World: A Novel about the History of Philosophy (30th Anniversary Edition) - Paperback

    By Jostein Gaarder

About Jostein Gaarder

Jostein Gaarder was born in Oslo, Norway, in 1952. He taught high-school philosophy for several years before publishing a collection of short stories in 1986 and, shortly thereafter, his first two novels, The Solitaire Mystery and Sophie's World, and several others since then. He lives in Oslo with his family. Rivka Galchen received her MD from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, having spent a year in South America working on public health issues. Galchen completed her MFA at Columbia University, where she was a Robert Bingham Fellow. Her essay on the Many Worlds Interpretation of quantum mechanics was published in The Believer, and she is the recipient of a 2006 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award. Galchen lives in New York City. She is the author of the novel Atmospheric Disturbances.