Nationality United States Role Author Siblings Elizabeth Craft | Name Gretchen Rubin Spouse Jamie Rubin | |
Occupation American author
blogger
speaker Notable works The Happiness Project
Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill
Forty Ways to Look at JFK Children Eliza Rubin, Eleanor Rubin Education Yale Law School, Yale University Books The Happiness Project, Happier at Home, Forty ways to look at JFK, Power Money Fame Sex, Forty Ways to Look at Winston Profiles | ||
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Gretchen Craft Rubin is an American author, blogger and speaker.
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Early life
Born Gretchen Anne Craft, Gretchen Rubin grew up in Kansas City, Missouri. She received her undergraduate and law degrees from Yale University, was editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal and won the Edgar M. Cullen Prize. She clerked on the U.S. Supreme Court for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and served as a chief adviser to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Reed Hundt. She has also been a lecturer at the Yale Law School and the Yale School of Management. She lives in New York City. She is the daughter-in-law of former US Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin.
Career
Gretchen Rubin is a writer on the linked subjects of habits, happiness, and human nature. She’s the author of many books, including the blockbuster New York Times bestsellers Happier at Home, and The Happiness Project. Rubin's books have sold more than a million print and online copies worldwide, in more than thirty languages. On her popular daily blog gretchenrubin.com, she reports on her adventures in pursuit of habits and happiness. She is the author of the most recent New York Times Bestseller Better Than Before: Mastering the Habits of Our Everyday Lives.
She is author of The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun, along with her follow up Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and My Other Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life. Her first book, Power Money Fame Sex: A User’s Guide, parodied self-help books by analyzing and exposing the techniques used to exploit those who strive for those worldly ambitions.
Rubin is also the author and creator of the popular blog The Happiness Project where she writes about her adventures as she test-drives the studies and theories about how to be happier.
On her her weekly podcast, Happier with Gretchen Rubin, she discusses good habits and happiness with her sister Elizabeth Craft, a Los Angeles-based television writer.
Her follow up to The Happiness Project, Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and My Other Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life, was published on September 4, 2012.
Her two biographies, Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill and Forty Ways to Look at JFK uses the "forty ways" structure to explore the complexities of these two great figures and to demonstrate the limits of biography.
Personal life
Rubin lives on the Manhattan's Upper East Side with her husband, James ("Jamie") Rubin (son of former Clinton-administration Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin), a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and their daughters, Eliza and Eleanor. Jamie caught hepatitis C when he was eight years old, supposedly from having unprotected blood transfusions. In January 2015 he declared himself cured.