Nancy Rubin Stuart

Nancy Rubin Stuart (née Nancy R. Zimman; b.1944 ), formerly known as Nancy Rubin, is an author, journalist, Executive Director of the Cape Cod Writers Center, a cable television writer-producer and a former board member of the Women Writing Women's Lives seminar for the City University of New York Graduate Center.

Stuart is a 1966 graduate of Jackson College, Tufts University.

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.

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."

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 also written for American History, the Huffington Post, the New England Quarterly and served as a columnist for the Barnstable Patriot.

Stuart has appeared on national television, radio, in podcasts and in videos.

In 2021 and 2022 her appearances included Revolution 250, We the People, the American Philosophical Society, the Massachusetts Historical Society, Sirius XM Radio's “The Revolution Road,” The Daughters of the American Revolution National Book Club, the Valley Forge National Historical Park Book Club, The Fraunces Tavern, Poor Richard's Book Club, History Camp and others.

Since moving from New York to Massachusetts with her husband, Stuart serves as executive director of the Cape Cod Writers Center.

Beacon Press published her latest book, POOR RICHARD'S WOMEN: Deborah Reade Franklin and the Other Women Behind the Founding Father in March 2022 which Library Journal's starred review noted was " a terrific read: poignant, provocative, and probing.”

Selected essays and articles

Several articles appeared in 2000-2001 in the Workplace section of The New York Times under the byline Nancy Rubin Stuart.

Stuart also contributed articles to other publications on a variety of topics.

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).

The Muse of the Revolution received the 2009 Book Award for historical scholarship from the Historic 1699 Winslow House and was a finalist for the 2010 USA Book News Best Book Award.

Stuart's recent book "Defiant Brides: The Untold Story of Two Revolutionary-Era Women and the Radical Men They Married" is a 2013 selection of the History Book Club, the Book-of-the-Month-2 Book Club (BOMC2) and the Military Book Club.