Nancy Rubin Stuart | |
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 Nancy Rubin Stuart | |
| Born | Nancy R. Zimman November 25, 1944 |
| Nationality | American |
| Other names | Nancy Rubin |
| Alma mater | Tufts University School of Arts and Sciences (Jackson College for Women) (B.A., 1966) Brown University (M.A.T., 1967) |
| Occupation(s) | author, journalist, TV writer-producer |
| Known for | author specializing in women's history |
| Website | www |
Nancy Rubin Stuart (née Nancy R. Zimman; b.1944 [1]), formerly known as Nancy Rubin, is an American author and journalist.
Stuart was Executive Director of the Cape Cod Writers Center as of 2012.[2]
Stuart is a 1966 graduate of Jackson College, Tufts University. She received her Master of Arts in Teaching from Brown University in 1967.[citation needed]
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.[3]
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 her book Isabella of Castile.
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 between 1996-1998, for which she won an Excellence in Writing Telly Award.[4][5][unreliable source?] From 1999-2001 she served as a writer-producer for Scripps Production's Restore America series for HGTV and received two additional Telly Awards.[6]
