Gretchen 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 one-minute internet movie, The Years Are Short.

Gretchen 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.

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