Nancy Stuart

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Nancy Rubin Stuart is an award-winning author whose nonfiction books focus uopn women and social history. These include POOR RICHARD’S WOMEN; Deborah Read Franklin and the Other Women Behind the Founding Father published by Beacon Press in March 2022; DEFIANT BRIDES, named by the Wall Street Journal as one of the five best books on Revolutionary-era women; THE MUSE OF THE REVOLUTION, and the best-selling AMERICAN EMPRESS. Nancy’s journalistic work has appeared in the New York Times, Huffington Post, the Washington Post, the New England Quarterly and national magazines. She is the executive director of the Cape Cod Writers Center.

 

 

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General

Lifestyle
Arts & Culture

Specialties

social history, women’s history

notepad Skills

  • Books
  • Editing
  • Event production
  • Feature writing
  • Q&A
  • News
  • Articles

notepad Writing Credits

The New York Times, A & E Monthly Magazine, American History Magazine, The Baltimore Sun, Law Firm, Inc., Huffington Post, , Cape Cod Times, Barnstable Patriot, Stamford Advocate/Greenwich Time, Business Week’s Careers, Newsday, Louisville Courier Journal, Work in America Institute. Savvy, AMS Press,(Biography and Source Studies series), American Imago, Child, Cooking Light, Family Circle Ladies’ Home Journal, McCall’s, Parents, Travel & Leisure, The Washington Post, Journal of the American Revolution, HistoryNet.com.

notepad Book Credits

Poor Richard’s Women: Deborah Read Franklin and the Other Women Behind the Founding Father (2022-2023 Beacon Press). 

Defiant Brides: The Untold Story of Two Revolutionary Era Women and the Radical Men They Married ( Beacon Press, 2013.))

The Muse of the Revolution: The Secret Pen of Mercy Otis Warren and the Founding of a Nation ( Beacon Press, 2008.)                                      

The Reluctant Spiritualist: The Life of Maggie Fox  (Harcourt Books,  2005)

American Empress: The Life and Times of Marjorie MerriweatherPost (Villard, 1995, paperbackcurrent)

Isabella of Castile:The First Renaissance Queen (St. Martin’s Press,1991 hardcover,1992 paperback) 

The Mother Mirror: How A Generation of Women Is Changing Motherhood in America( New York: G. P. Putnam’s, 1984).  

The New Suburban Woman: Beyond Myth and Motherhood ( Coward, McCann & Geoghegan,1982).

 

star Awards, Honors, Appointments

2021 Wall Street Journal – Defiant Brides “One of the Five Best Books on Revolutionary Era Women”

2013  Defiant Brides, A Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club 2 and the History and Military Book Clubs

2010 Finalist, USA Book News Best Book Award for The Muse of the Revolution 

2008 Creative Artists and Writers Fellow, American Antiquarian Society

2009 Historic Winslow House Best Book Award for The Muse of the Revolution 

2006 Honorable Mention, Outstanding book of the Year for The Reluctant Spiritualist from the American Society of Journalists and Authors 

1995 Best Book Westchester Library Association

1992 Author of the Year Award for Isabella of Castile from the American Society of Journalists and Authors

1981  Fellow, MacDowell Colony

1980 Time Inc. Fellow, Bread Loaf Writers Conference

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