Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Rubin
Rubin at the 2014 Brooklyn Book Festival
Born	Gretchen Anne Craft (1965-12-15) December 15, 1965 (age 51) Kansas, MO
Occupation	Author blogger speaker
Nationality	American
Notable works	The Happiness Project Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill Forty Ways to Look at JFK
Spouse	Jamie Rubin (m. 1994)
Website
Official website

Gretchen Craft Rubin (born 1966) is an American author, blogger and speaker.

Born Gretchen Anne Craft, Gretchen Rubin grew up in Kansas City, Missouri where she attended The Pembroke Hill School. She received her undergraduate and law degrees from Yale University, was editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal and won the Edgar M. Cullen Prize. She clerked on the U.S. Supreme Court for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and served as a chief adviser to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Reed Hundt. She has also been a lecturer at the Yale Law School and the Yale School of Management. She lives in New York City. She is the daughter-in-law of former US Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin.

Rubin is a writer on subjects of habits, happiness, and human nature. She is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Better Than Before, Happier at Home, and The Happiness Project. Rubin's books have sold more than one million print and online copies worldwide in over thirty languages. On her daily blog, GretchenRubin.com, she reports on her adventures in pursuit of habits and happiness. On August 10, 2003, Brian Lamb interviewed her on the television show, Booknotes.

She is author of The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun, along with the follow-up Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and My Other Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life. Her first book, Power Money Fame Sex: A User’s Guide, parodied self-help books by analyzing and exposing the techniques used to exploit those who strive for those worldly ambitions.