Nancy Rubin Stuart

Nancy Rubin Stuart (née Nancy R. Zimman) is an award-winning author/journalist, the Executive Director of the Cape Cod Writers Center, a speaker for the New York Council for the Humanities and a board member of the Women Writing Women's Lives Seminar for the City University of New York Graduate Center.

Biography

Stuart is a 1966 graduate of Jackson College, Tufts University where she was class poet. She received her Master of Arts in Teaching from Brown University in 1967.

Stuart was a contributor to the New York Times from 1977-2001 in the Westchester, Long Island, Travel, National Career Survey, Education Life and News in Review sections under the byline of Nancy Rubin. Several articles appeared in 2000-2001 in the Workplace section of The New York Times under the byline Nancy Rubin Stuart.

Stuart was a Time Inc. Fellow at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in 1979 and a 1981 Fellow at the MacDowell Colony. Stuart won the American Society of Journalists and Authors' 1992 Author of the Year for Isabella of Castile (St. Martin's Press, 1991, 1992). Mount Vernon College (now part of George Washington University) conferred a Doctor of Humane Letters upon Stuart in 1995 for her biography of Marjorie Merriweather Post "American Empress." The American Society of Journalists and Authors named Stuart's 2005 book " The Reluctant Spiritualist" (Harcourt, Inc.) Honorable Mention for its Outstanding Book Award of 2006. That book was also nominated for the New York Historical Society's first Best Historical Book award. In 2005 Stuart received a William Randolph Hearst Fellowship from the American Antiquarian Society for research on The Muse of the Revolution (Beacon Press, 2008, 2009). She also received The Historic 1699 Winslow House Award for 2008 on behalf of that book.

Stuart served as a writer for Cinetel Productions in A&E Network's America's Castles (Series 1-3), including The Industrial Barons, The Anglophiles, The Best of Charleston, The Lone Start Estates, Palaces in Paradise, Scottish Links & Lairds, University Estates, The Eccentrics and The New York Estates between 1996-1998 for which she won an Excellence in Writing Telly Award. From 1999-2001 she served as a writer-producer for Scripps Production's Restore America series for HGTV and received two additional Telly Awards.

Stuart has appeared on national television and radio on behalf of her books, most recently in 2008 on C-SPAN's BookTV.

Currently, Stuart lives on Cape Cod where she is completing a new book.

Bibliography

Rubin, Nancy (1982). The New Suburban Woman: Beyond Myth and Motherhood. New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan. ISBN 0-698-11133-8

Rubin, Nancy (1984). The Mother Mirror: How A Generation of Women Is Changing Motherhood in America. New York: G.P.Putnam's Sons. ISBN 0-399-12981-2

Rubin, Nancy (1991). Isabella of Castile: The First Renaissance Queen. New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0-312-05878-0

Rubin, Nancy (1995). American Empress: The Life and Times of Marjorie Merriweather Post. New York: Villard Books. ISBN 0-679-41347-2

Rubin Stuart,Nancy (2005). The Reluctant Spiritualist: The Life of Maggie Fox. New York: Harcourt, Inc. ISBN 0-15-101013-7

Rubin Stuart, Nancy (2008). The Muse of the Revolution: The Secret Pen of Mercy Otis Warren and the Founding of a Nation. Boston: Beacon Press ISBN 978-0-8070-5516-8

Selected essays and articles

• “ Women Vs. Women,” Ladies Home Journal, April 1982.

• “The Convex Mirror: A Queen, An Heiress and Biographical Blindness,” American Imago, V.55, No.2, Summer 1998.

• "Biographer’s Dilemma: The Humanization of an Infamous Historical Figure,” Biography and Source Studies, AMS Press, v. 2, 1996.

• “Their lives inspire when put into print,” The Baltimore Sun, March 22, 2005.

• “Conscience of the Revolution,” American History, August 2008.

• "Portrait of a Patriot: The Major Political and Legal Papers of Josiah Quincy Junior," New England Quarterly, v. LXXXII, No. 1, March 2009.

References

1. Author Nancy Rubin Stuart - The Reluctant Spiritualist: The Life of Maggie Fox, American Empress: The Life and Times of Marjorie Merriweather Post

2. Contributor Biography: Nancy Rubin Stuart - Beacon Press In this unprecedented biography, Nancy Rubin Stuart reveals how Warren's provocative writing made her an exception among the largely voiceless women of the ...

3. The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society - NEW BOOK BY NANCY RUBIN STUART ... Nancy Rubin Stuart brings to light the life of the first female historian of the American revolution with her biography, The Muse of the Revolution.

4. J. Robert Maguire Lecture: Nancy Rubin Stuart Aug 2, 2009 ... The Mount Independence Coalition is pleased to be bringing Nancy Rubin Stuart to the Mount to be this year's J. Robert Maguire lecturer.

5. The Journal of American History, Vol. 96 No. 1 - Book Review for The Muse of the Revolution: The Secret Pen of Mercy Otis Warren and the Founding of a Nation. By Nancy Rubin Stuart. (Boston: Beacon, 2008. xiv, 314 pp.

6. American Antiquarian Society 2005-2006 Fellows Jun 7, 2006 ... Nancy Rubin Stuart was awarded a William Randolph Hearst Fellowship. Ms. Rubin Stuart, a director of the Women Writing Women's Lives Seminar ...

7. Bernardo Buil -Nancy Rubin Stuart, Isabella of Castile: The First Renaissance Queen (2004), p. 353, p. 405. She refers to Buil as abbot of San Miguel de Cuxa (p. 400).

8. Feminist Review: The Muse of the Revolution: The Secret Pen of Mercy Otis Warren and the Founding of a Nation Sep 20, 2008 ... Author Nancy Rubin Stuart has meticulously researched the life of American writer, poet, pamphleteer, playwright, historian and pro-liberty...

9. Woman Writing Women's Lives Women's Biography Seminar: WWWL Meetings 2009-2010 Featured speakers shared their reflections on being a seminar member: Nancy Rubin Stuart, Alix Kates Shulman, and Blanche Wiesen Cook. ...

10. Cape Cod Times Writing center reaches out to broader community Nancy Rubin Stuart is the new director of the Cape Cod Writers Center. By Laurie Higgins. CONTRIBUTING WRITER. June 13, 2010 ...

11. The Barnstable Patriot - Columnists October 15, 2010, The Fogs of Autumn, Nancy Rubin Stuart ... September 17, 2010, Guest Commentary: The train as time machine, Nancy Rubin Stuart ...

12. MIT Press Journals The New England Quarterly - The Muse of the Revolution: The Secret Pen ...by MO Warren speaking to much the same market, comes Nancy Rubin Stuart's The. Muse of the Revolution: The Secret Pen of Mercy Otis Warren and the Founding of a Nation.

13. The Barnstable Patriot - Guest Commentary: Old roads of Cape Cod Jul 30, 2010 ... Nancy Rubin Stuart is author of The Muse of the Revolution: The Secret Pen of Mercy Otis Warren and director of the Cape Cod Writers Center.

14. Beacon Press: Awards Won by Beacon Press Historic Winslow House Book Award - The Muse of the Revolution Nancy Rubin Stuart, 2009 Winner

15. Finalist for the USA Book News "Best Books Award" in the 'Biography: Historical' category for The Muse of the Revolution.

External links

• Official Website
• Who's Who for Nancy Rubin Stuart: journalist, author, television producer

Persondata
Name	Nancy Rubin Stuart
Alternative names	Nancy Rubin
Short description	Author/Journalist
Date of birth	1944
Place of birth	Boston, MA
Date of death
Place of death