Author-Journalist
Nancy Rubin Stuart
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A Message from the Author and JournalistI'm Nancy Rubin Stuart, also known as Nancy Rubin, a writer of non-fiction articles and books. My concern is with real-life people who are in situations that challenge, perplex, or delight them --people just like you and me! You can find my books on the right side of this web page and learn more about them by clicking upon each title, but you probably already knew that! As a journalist and author I've written hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles and six non-fiction books. My latest book depicts one of America's most extraordinary women, a nearly forgotten Founding Mother who wrote about the American Revolution from her own experience and those of her friends. Among them were patriots John and Abigail Adams,Sam Adams, Martha and George Washington, Henry Knox and Elbridge Gerry. Her name was Mercy Otis Warren -- the first female historian of the American Revolution, the nation's first female playwright,and an ardent advocate for a Bill of Rights and the common man. HBO's new miniseries on John Adams has already mentioned her and will do so again. On July 4, 2008 Beacon Press published her lifestory in my biographpy, The Muse of the Revolution: The Secret Pen of Mercy Otis Warren and the Founding of a Nation. Why do I write? Perhaps the best way to answer that is to ask why you read. Do you pick up a book to be entertained, to learn about other people, to explore new ideas and worlds -- to live more widely than you could in a single lifetime? Those are also some of the reasons why I write. But there is one more. I write to preserve memory, to capture human experience in its ever-changing dimensions and complexities. For me to fail to write is to forget, to ignore all that moves and inspires us as individuals, all that connotes joy, sorrow and challenge -- in short, all that gives meaning to our lives.    |
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