Harriet Rubin

Harriet Rubin is the founder and Publisher of Doubleday's Currency imprint and author of two books in addition to her latest titles, The Mona Lisa Strategem and Dante In Love—The Princessa: Machiavelli for Women, an international bestseller currently in its eighth US paperback printing and in fifteen foreign editions. A freelance writer, she serves on the USA Today editorial board and has served as a contributing editor at Fast Company magazine.

DANTE IN LOVE: The World's Greatest Poem and How It Made History (Simon & Schuster, 2004)

THE MONA LISA STRATAGEM: The Art of Women, Age, and Power (Warner Books, 2007)