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Gretchen Rubin
Rubin at the 2014 Brooklyn Book Festival
Rubin at the 2014
Brooklyn Book Festival
BornGretchen Anne Craft
(1965-12-15) December 15, 1965 (age 59)
Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.
OccupationAuthor
blogger
speaker
NationalityAmerican
Alma materYale University (BA, JD)
Notable worksThe Happiness Project
Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill
Forty Ways to Look at JFK
Spouse
Jamie Rubin
​
(m. 1994)​
Website
Official website

Gretchen Craft Rubin (born December 14, 1965) is an American author, blogger and speaker.

Early life and education

Born Gretchen Anne Craft, Gretchen Rubin grew up in Kansas City, Missouri, where her father was a lawyer at the firm of Craft, Fridkin & Rhyne.[1] She attended The Pembroke Hill School.[2][3] 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.[4] She clerked for Judge Pierre N. Leval of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and then on the U.S. Supreme Court for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor from 1995 to 1996. After her clerkships, she served as a chief adviser to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Reed Hundt.[1] She has also been a lecturer at the Yale Law School and the Yale School of Management.

Career

Rubin is a writer on subjects of habits, happiness, and human nature.[5] She is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Better Than Before, Happier at Home, and The Happiness Project.[6] Rubin's books have sold more than two million print and online copies worldwide in over thirty languages.[7][8] On her daily blog, GretchenRubin.com, she reports on her adventures in pursuit of habits and happiness. On August 10, 2003, Brian Lamb interviewed her on the television show, Booknotes.

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 the 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.[9] 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.[10][11]

Her book Better Than Before: What I Learned About Making and Breaking Habits--to Sleep More, Quit Sugar, Procrastinate Less, and Generally Build a Happier Life recommends setting manageable goals, and breaking up tasks into small steps.[12][13][14][15]

On her weekly podcast, Happier with Gretchen Rubin, she discusses good habits and happiness with her sister Elizabeth Craft, a Los Angeles-based television writer.[16]

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.[17][18][19]

Personal life

Rubin lives on Manhattan's Upper East Side with her husband, James ("Jamie") Rubin (son of former Clinton-administration Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin),[20][21] a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and their daughters, Eliza and Eleanor.[3][22]

Writings

  • Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill: A Brief Account of a Long Life. New York: Ballantine Books, 2003. ISBN 978-0-345-45047-0
  • Forty Ways to Look at JFK. New York: Ballantine Books, 2005. ISBN 978-0345450494
  • Power Money Fame Sex: A User's Guide. Atria, 2005. ISBN 978-0671041298
  • Profane Waste. Gregory R. Miller & Company, 2006. ISBN 978-0974364834
  • 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. New York, NY: Harper, 2009. ISBN 978-0-06-158325-4
  • Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and My Other Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life. New York, NY: Harper, 2012. ISBN 978-0307886781
  • Better Than Before: What I Learned About Making and Breaking Habits--to Sleep More, Quit Sugar, Procrastinate Less, and Generally Build a Happier Life. New York, NY: Crown, 2015. ISBN 978-0385348614

References

  1. ^ a b Margolies, Dan (December 13, 1998). "His signature's on the buck, but did Rubin pay the tab?". Kansas City Business Journal. Retrieved May 12, 2017.
  2. ^ "Watch Alumna's Hazard Lecture". Pembroke Hill School. October 2, 2014. Retrieved May 12, 2017.
  3. ^ a b Harrison Smith, Sarah (October 5, 2012). "Happiness Expert, Plying Her Craft". The New York Times.
  4. ^ "Class of 1989 15th Reunion". Yale University. Retrieved May 12, 2017.
  5. ^ Paumgarten, Nick (September 11, 2000). "Dept. of Self-Help Former Lives A Rubin's Guide to Getting it All". New Yorker. Retrieved May 12, 2017.
  6. ^ "100 Bestselling books of 2012". Toronto Star. December 28, 2012. Retrieved May 12, 2017. Special interest: rank number 11, Happiness Project, by Gretchen Rubin.
  7. ^ Koncius, Jura (July 11, 2016). "Find your inner calm by containing your clutter". Houston Chronicle. orig. Washington Post. Retrieved May 13, 2017.
  8. ^ Turnbull, Barbara (September 11, 2012). "Gretchen Rubin's top happiness tip". Toronto Star. Retrieved May 12, 2017.
  9. ^ Zipp, Yvonne (October 19, 2012). "Looking for happiness at work, home and in life". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved May 12, 2017.
  10. ^ Wood, Thomas (September 2000). "Power Money Fame Sex: A User's Guide". Bookpage.com. Retrieved May 12, 2017.
  11. ^ "Review: Power Money Fame Sex: A User's Guide". Publisher's Weekly. Retrieved May 12, 2017.
  12. ^ Ko, Claudine (January 7, 2016). "How to actually keep those New Year's resolutions". New York Post. Retrieved June 17, 2017.
  13. ^ Nesdoly, Tracy (June 7, 2015). "Taking Gretchen Rubin's advice, it's never too late to know better: Nesdoly". Toronto Star. Retrieved May 12, 2017.
  14. ^ Roberts, Genevieve (March 24, 2015). "Gretchen Rubin: In trying to tackle our bad habits, has the author developed some of her own?". The Independent (UK). Retrieved May 12, 2017.
  15. ^ Stevens, Heidi (March 9, 2015). "In 'Better Than Before,' Gretchen Rubin examines how habits shape our lives". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved May 12, 2017.
  16. ^ Schawbel, Dan (March 17, 2015). "Gretchen Rubin: How To Create Healthy Workplace Habits". Forbes. Retrieved 2015-10-15.
  17. ^ "Review: Forty Ways to Look at JFK". American Library Association. Booklist. October 1, 2005. Retrieved May 12, 2017.
  18. ^ "Forty Ways to Look at JFK-Hardcover". Amazon.com. October 25, 2005. Retrieved May 12, 2017.
  19. ^ "Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill: A Brief Account of a Long Life". Amazon.com. Retrieved May 12, 2017.
  20. ^ "ENGAGEMENTS; Gretchen Craft, James Rubin". New York Times. November 7, 1993. Retrieved May 12, 2017.
  21. ^ "WEDDINGS - Gretchen A. Craft, James S. Rubin". New York Times. 1994-09-04. Retrieved 2017-01-11.
  22. ^ Hoffman, Jan (February 26, 2010). "On Top of the Happiness Racket". The New York Times. Retrieved 2015-10-15.
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