Brigitte Goldstein is an award-winning author of five historical novels. Her interest in history and literature goes back to the time of her studies of French culture and literature at the University of Paris (Sorbonne). She continued the study of those fields as an undergraduate at Towson University and graduate work at New York University respectively, After obtaining a doctorate in European and German history from NYU, she put in a stint of teaching college courses in primarily Western Civilization. In the course of this experience, the idea ripened in her mind that by combining her interests in literature and history, she could bring to life a particular historical period and its events better than with the paradigms of an academic discipline. She subsequently began to apply her writing talent and ability to put herself into a past time and place as well as the shoes of the people, plus the research skills she had acquired in the course of her studies, to produce works of fiction that portray the mentality, culture, and  milieu of a period through the lives and struggles of individuals caught up in the events of their time. Three of her novels are thus set in medieval and early modern France. In her fourth and fifth novels, she turned to the early twentieth century to explore and bring to life Jewish culture and history in the German speaking world. She believes that the richness of historical material will never cease to provide her vivid imagination with material and plots to write about.

Brigitte Goldstein is multi-lingual and has put those skills to use as translator of several German literary works