Harriet Rubin

Harriet Rubin founded Currency, an award winning imprint at Doubleday, for which she discovered and developed bestselling books by philosophers, poets, prelates and CEOs. She is the author of the international bestseller, The Princessa: Machiavelli for Women and Dante in Love: The World’s Greatest Poem and How it Made History, for which she was twice awarded a residency at the American Academy in Rome. Her articles have appeared in the NYT, the WSJ, USA Today, and Fast Company magazine among other publications. She’s been interviewed by Scott Simon on NPR and has guest lectured at more than a dozen colleges across the country and around the world. In 2017, she began a four-year full-time training with the master artist Juliette Aristides in the techniques of classical representational drawing and painting. Her paintings have won awards and have been shown at the Maryhill Museum and in Seattle galleries.