Nancy Rubin Stuart

Nancy Rubin Stuart is an award-winning author and journalist who specializes in women, biography and social history.

A graduate of Tufts University with a B.A. in English and an M.A.T. from Brown University, Nancy holds an honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from Mount Vernon College, now part of Georgetown University.

Nancy is a 2006 awardee for an Outstanding Book Award, Nonfiction from the American Society of Journalists and Authors, a 2006 New York Historical Society Book Prize Nominee and a 2005 recipient of a William Randolph Hearst Fellowship from the American Antiquarian Society. Other honors include three Telly Awards from the cable television industry, the 1992 Author of the Year Award from the American Society of Authors and Journalists, the Washington Irving Award from the Westchester Library System, a Time, Inc. scholarship from the Bread Loaf Writers Conference and a fellowship from the MacDowell Colony.

In 2005 Harcourt published her biography about the co-founder of American spiritualism, The Reluctant Spiritualist: The Life of Maggie Fox.

Under her previous byline Nancy Rubin, the author's best-selling biography American Empress: The Life and Timesof Marjorie Merriweather Post was recently reprinted in paperback. Previous titles under that same byline areIsabella of Castile: The First Renaissance Queen; The Mother Mirror: How a Generation of Women Is Changing Motherhood in America and The New Suburban Woman: Beyond Myth and Motherhood .

A seasoned public speaker, Nancy has appeared on behalf of her books on the A & E Series “Mansions, Monuments and Masterpieces” and “America’s Castles,” on Oprah, on CBS Morning News and on National Public Radio. She makes frequent appearances at colleges and book clubs and before audiences ranging from the Palm Beach Society of the Four Arts to Manhattan's National Arts Club.

As a journalist, she has contributed to many publications including The New York Times, American History Magazine, The Los Angeles Times,The Stamford Advocate, Greenwich Time, Business Week’s Careers, Parents, McCalls, Family Circle,Savvy and Travel and Leisure.

Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Nancy began writing as a child. After graduation from college and graduate school, she married, taught high school English, served as a playwright/director off-off Broadway and after starting a family, moved to suburban New York.

As a young mother, Nancy wrote for suburban and then national sections of the New York Times before becoming an author. Today she continues to work as a journalist, reviews books for ForeWord Magazine and serves as one of the directors of the Women Writing Womens' Lives Seminar for the City University of New York Graduate Center.

She currently lives in Manhattan with her husband Bill. Besides spending time with her family and writing, Nancy enjoys dancing, skiing, gardening and the cultural life of New York City.

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