The Happiness Project: How To Be Happier

About Gretchen Rubin and The Happiness Project

• I'm a writer working on a book, The Happiness Project, an account of the year I spent test-driving the wisdom of the ages, the current scientific studies, and tips from popular culture about how to be happy-from Aristotle to Martin Seligman to Oprah. On my "Happiness Project" blog, I recount my adventures and insights as I grapple with the challenge of being happier.

  I've written four books: the best-selling Forty Ways To Look at Winston Churchill, Forty Ways To Look at JFK, Power Money Fame Sex: A User's Guide, and Profane Waste (with artist Dana Hoey). I graduated from Yale Law School and was clerking for Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor when I realized I really wanted to be writing.

  Raised in Kansas City, I live in New York City with my husband and two daughters. My only hobbies are reading and writing. I'm left-handed, terrible at sports, tone-deaf, a constant hair-twister, and afraid to drive. I talk to my parents and sister all the time, and I live around the corner from my in-laws.

  E-mail me: grubin[at]gretchenrubin[dot com]
  (I added brackets to thwart spammers, but just use the usual e-mail format.)

  Follow me on Twitter: gretchenrubin

  See my one-minute movie: The Years Are Short

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