Gretchen Rubin Biography
Gretchen Rubin is a New York Times bestselling author, blogger, and speaker who has written multiple books, including The Four Tendencies, Better Than Before, The Happiness Project, and Happier at Home.
How old is Gretchen Rubin? – Age
She is 56 years old as of 15 December 2021. She was born in 1965 in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. Her real name is Gretchen Craft Rubin.
Gretchen Rubin Family – Education
She was born to Karen Craft and Jack Craft, a lawyer at the firm of Craft, Fridkin & Rhyne. She was a student at Pembroke Hill School. She attended Yale University for her undergraduate and law degrees, where she served as editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal and was awarded the Edgar M. Cullen Prize. She clerked for Judge Pierre N. Leval of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and then for Justice Sandra Day O’Connor of the United States Supreme Court from 1995 to 1996. She worked as a chief adviser to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Reed Hundt after her clerkships. She has also given talks at Yale Law School and Yale School of Management.
Who is Gretchen Rubin’s sister?
Her sister Elizabeth Craft is a producer and writer who has worked on shows like The Fix, 666 Park Avenue, and The Shield. Since 2007, she has been married to Adam Fierro. They only have one child together.
Is Gretchen Rubin still married? – Husband
Rubin is married to James (“Jamie”) Rubin, a senior scholar at the Brookings Institution and the son of former Clinton administration Treasury Secretary and Goldman Sachs CEO Robert Rubin. The family lives on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.
How old are Gretchen Rubin’s Daughters?
The couple has two daughters; Eliza Rubin and Eleanor Rubin. Rubin’s research on home happiness has influenced the way she spends her weekends, which she strives to fill with leisure and “a sense of rest.”
Gretchen Rubin Writing Career
Rubin is a writer who specializes in topics such as habits, happiness, and human nature. Better Than Before, Happier at Home, and The Happiness Project are all New York Times bestsellers. Rubin’s novels have sold over two million print and online copies in over thirty languages throughout the world. GretchenRubin.com, her daily blog, chronicles her journeys in the quest for habits and happiness. Gretchen Rubin talks about good habits and happiness with her sister Elizabeth Craft, a television writer in Los Angeles, in her monthly podcast Happier with Gretchen Rubin. Brian Lamb of the television show Booknotes interviewed Rubin on August 10, 2003.
The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Have More Fun is her first book. Rubin’s follow-up book, Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and Other Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life, was released on September 4, 2012. Power Money Fame Sex: A User’s Guide, her third book, mocked self-help books by dissecting and revealing the strategies utilized to exploit those with worldly desires. Setting attainable goals and breaking down chores into little steps are recommended in her book Better Than Before: What I Learned About Making and Breaking Habits—to Sleep More, Quit Sugar, Procrastinate Less, and Generally Build a Happier Life.
The “forty ways” format is used in her two biographies, Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill and Forty Ways to Look at JFK, to explore the intricacies of these two great personalities and to highlight the limits of biography.
On September 12, 2017, her book, The Four Tendencies: The Indispensable Personality Profiles That Reveal How to Make Your Life (and Other People’s Lives) Better, was released. Rubin contributed to the creation of the “Joy Index” in 2017, a list of the ten “most cheerful” destinations to visit based on a variety of “happiness variables.” She released a new book, Outer Order: Inner Calm, in March 2019, in which she continues to explore the link between happiness and personal routines.
How much does Gretchen Rubin make? – Salary
She earns a salary of $ 100 thousand.
Gretchen Rubin Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $ 1.2 Million.