Nancy Rubin Stuart
 Contact her at www.thewriteway@aol.com  Nancy Rubin Stuart is an award-winning author and journalist who specializes in women, social history and biography. Beacon Press published her latest book, The Muse of the Revolution: The Secret Pen of Mercy Otis Warren on July 4, 2008. Reviewers hailed the biography of a nearly forgotten Founding Mother as an outstanding portrait of a woman sensitive to the civil rights issues once again confronting our nation. Nancy's earlier books include the award-winning 2005 The Reluctant Spiritualist: The Life of Maggie Fox, the best-selling American Empress: The Life and Times of Marjorie Merriweather Post published in 1995 and the award-winning Isabella of Castile: The First Renaissance Queen of 1991. "Write what you know" a seasoned author told Nancy in 1979 when she was first writing for the New York Times. Then living in Westchester County, New York and raising children, she subsequently published her first books -- The New Suburban Woman: Beyond Myth and Motherhood and The Mother Mirror: How a Generation of Women Is Changing Motherhood in America. In connection with her books, Nancy has appeared on the A & E Network, Oprah, CBS Morning News, National Public Radio and on December 13, 2008 on C-Span2's BookTV. A National Magazine Award Nominee, Nancy was named a 2005 William Randolph Hearst Fellow by the American Antiquarian Society. Earlier awards include three Tellys for the cable television industry, the Author of the Year Award from the American Society of Journalists and Authors and the Washington Irving Award from the Westchester Library System. Nancy's journalistic work has appeared in many newspapers and magazines, among them The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Baltimore Sun, American History , The Stamford Advocate, Greenwich Time, Business Week’s Careers, Parents, Savvy, Family Circle and Travel and Leisure. She and her husband recently moved to Cape Cod. For more information click on Biography. |
A Message from the Author and JournalistI'm Nancy Rubin Stuart, earlier known as Nancy Rubin, a writer of nonfiction articles and books. My concern is with people who encounter situations that challenge, perplex, or delight them, people, in other words,like you and me.
You can find my books on the right side of this web page. To learn more about them, click upon each title. As a journalist and author I've written hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles and six nonfiction books. As you read this, I'm working on another new book. My latest published work is a biography about one of America's most extraordinary women, the Founding Mother who wrote about the American Revolution from her own recollections and those of her patriotic friends. Among them were 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. She was also our nation's first female playwright, and ardent advocate for a Bill of Rights. You may remember her from the HBO miniseries on John Adams which mentioned her as one his highly respected friends. In July 2008 Beacon Press published her life story, entitled The Muse of the Revolution: The Secret Pen of Mercy Otis Warren and the Founding of a Nation which was reissued in 2009 in paperback. Why do I write? The best answer 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 dimensions and complexities. For me, to fail to write is to ignore life in all its colors be they bright, dark or multi-hued. To capture our fleeting existence in print or on the screen is not only a joy, but a privilege.   The author in her garden |
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