About The Author
Gretchen Craft Rubin is a writer working on The Happiness Project (forthcoming
HarperCollins 2009)—an account of the year she spent
test-driving every conceivable principle about how to be happy, from
Aristotle to Ben Franklin to Oprah to Martin Seligman. On her popular
blog, The Happiness
Project,
she reports on her daily adventures on her
way to becoming happier.
Among other things, since she started her
Happiness Project, she has cleaned out her closets, written a
novel, tried hypnosis, started a children’s literature reading group,
quit nagging her husband (mostly), joined the Council on Foreign
Relations, abandoned her gratitude journal, started singing in the
morning, and launched a blog.
Rubin is a graduate of Yale Law School and was
editor-in-chief of the Yale Law
Journal. She was clerking for Justice Sandra Day O’Connor
when she realized that she really wanted to be a writer.
Her
bestselling Forty Ways to Look at
Winston Churchill and Forty Ways to Look at JFK are
succinct, provocative biographies. Power Money Fame Sex: A User’s
Guide is biting social criticism in the form of a user’s
manual. She also has three terrible novels safely locked in a desk
drawer.
She lives in New York City with her husband and
two young daughters.