Robert Steven Goldstein

Robert Steven Goldstein was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1952. He has practiced Yoga, meditation, and vegetarianism for over forty years. Mr. Goldstein and his wife Sandy now live in the San Francisco Bay Area, and have lovingly shared their home with parrots, dogs, cats, rabbits, and turtles. Their daughter is married and lives in Texas. Prior to becoming a novelist, Mr. Goldstein enjoyed a successful, thirty-five year career in the corporate sector in executive level roles in healthcare information, and later as a consultant to charitable foundations and nonprofit organizations. Mr. Goldstein’s first novel, "The Swami Deheftner", published in 2013, chronicles the life of Solomon Deheftner, who achieves fame as a stage magician and escapologist in the tradition of the Great Houdini, only to abandon that career in the search for something far more elusive: the profound magic inherent in mystical transcendence. Solomon Deheftner probes the secrets of Yoga, meditation, vegetarianism, animal intelligence, bondage, and sadomasochism in his quest for spiritual enlightenment.