Nancy Rubin Stuart

Nancy Rubin Stuart (née Nancy R. Zimman; b.1944 ), formerly known as Nancy Rubin, is an American author and journalist.

Stuart is Executive Director of the Cape Cod Writers Center as of 2024.

She is the author of eight nonfiction books about women and social history.

Stuart has contributed to the Journal of the American Revolution , The Saturday Evening Post, The New England Quarterly, The Huffington Post and many pre-digital magazines.

Education and career Stuart is a 1966 graduate of Jackson College of 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 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. From 1999-2001 she served as a writer-producer for Scripps Production's Restore America series for HGTV and received two additional Telly Awards.