Nancy Rubin Stuart is an award-winning author of books about women and the world around them.
You can read about these important but often-neglected heroines in my books on this site.
Think you know everything about the famous scientist and founding father Benjamin Franklin? Think again. Probably not about Franklin’s wife and the other women he loved and lost!
Nancy’s latest work is POOR RICHARD’S WOMEN which received glowing reviews when published in 2022. Now it’s also available in paperback and audio. Order the book here.
For a change of pace, I’ve been writing stories for the Saturday Evening Post. Click on the magazine title to see them.
Poor Richard’s Women
Deborah Read Franklin
and the Other Women Behind the Founding Father
Poor Richard’s Women brings to life the voices of those who loved, nurtured and defended Ben as he struggled privately with passion and prudence.
In these pages, readers will discover Deborah Read Franklin, his common-law wife and partner for forty-four years, as well as his four other romantic attachments.
Attractive, charming and independent, these women reveal a very different Franklin than the founding father described in history books.
Follow this link to listen to an interview with the Massachusetts Historical Society.
About the Author
Born in Boston, Nancy graduated from Tufts University with a B.A. in English and an M.A.T. from Brown University. In 1995, Mount Vernon College, now part of Georgetown University, awarded her an honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters.
While raising children, Nancy wrote for the New York Times under the byline Nancy Rubin. That work and her experiences as a suburban wife and mother prompted her first book, The New Suburban Woman: Beyond Myth and Motherhood.
Subsequent books under that byline were The Mother Mirror: How a Generation of Women Is Changing Motherhood in America; Isabella of Castile: The First Renaissance Queen, and the best-selling American Empress: The Life and Times of Marjorie Merriweather Post.
Earlier Books by Nancy Rubin Stuart
“I write to illuminate the forgotten lives of women
who have made significant contributions to our world.”
See all of Nancy’s books on the Bookshelf page.