Yael Goldstein Love is a novelist, editor and book critic.

Her debut novel was The Passion of Tasha Darsky, originally named Overture (Doubleday, 2007), about the contentious relationship between mother and daughter musicians. Her mother is Rebecca Goldstein

Rebecca Goldstein

Rebecca Goldstein is an American novelist and professor of philosophy. She has written five novels, a number of short stories and essays, and biographical studies of mathematician Kurt Gödel and philosopher Baruch Spinoza....

, the novelist and philosopher, which caused speculation as to whether the novel was drawn from semi-autobiographical experience.
In response, she said, “Interestingly, my mother’s relationship with me is nothing like this. First of all, Tasha is nothing like my mother. She’s this incredibly ambitious, incredibly driven woman. My mother’s ambitious, but not like that."

In reviewing the novel, The New York Times

The New York Times

The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...

 Book Review described Goldstein Love as "a young writer of great emotional precocity" who "shows signs of brooding genius."

Goldstein Love graduated from Harvard College with a degree in philosophy.

Her father is Sheldon Goldstein. Her step-father is Steven Pinker

Steven Pinker

Steven Arthur Pinker is a Canadian-American experimental psychologist, cognitive scientist, linguist and popular science author...

, the linguist and evolutionary psychologist.