JANE LOEB RUBIN
With an extensive healthcare background and a passion for medical and women’s immigrant history, Ms. Rubin began writing in 2009 after she was diagnosed with a genetically based cancer diagnosis. After intensive research, she discovered her great-grandmother who likely had the same mutation. Her great-grandmother's name was Tillie. She arrived in New York City as a one-year-old in 1866. At the age of sixteen, she married a man twelve years her senior, later dying of ‘a woman’s disease.’ Ms. Rubin was determined to give Tillie a fictional life of her own, imagining her rags to riches life and fight with terminal disease.
Her novels have culminated in a four-book deal with Level Best Books (Threadbare, In the Hands of Women - 2023, Over There - 2025, Mayhem in the Mountains - 2026), following the fictional life of her great-grandmother’s family. Her engaging characters confront the restrictive reproductive rights of the time, the limited roles for women, the perilous road to financial success, the contributions of Jewish doctors and nurses in WW1, and 1920’s in the Catskill Mountains rife with bootleggers and the KKK.
Ms. Rubin, a graduate of the University of Michigan (BS, MS) and Washington University (MBA), retired from a 30-year career as a healthcare executive to begin writing full-time. She lives with her husband, David, an attorney, in Northern New Jersey. Between them, they have five adult children and seven grandchildren.
THE GILDED CITY SERIES
