Jane Loeb Rubin

Bestselling author Jane Loeb Rubin has won numerous awards including the Historical Novel Society's First Chapters short list for "Over There," released in May 2025.

After a serious cancer diagnosis in 2009, Rubin turned to writing, drawing on her extensive healthcare background. She now has a four-book deal with Level Best Books -- "In the Hands of Women" (2023), "Threadbare" (2024), "Over There" (2025), and "The Hat Trick" (2026)—a series that follows the fictionalized life of her great-grandmother’s family.

"In the Hands of Women" takes the reader on an electrifying ride through the dawn of the 20th century, delving into the restrictive state of women’s rights, backroom abortions, the plight of immigrants to the Lower East Side of New York City and the prison system at Blackwell’s Island, all through the voice of a young OB/Gyn, Tillie’s younger sister, Hannah.

"Threadbare" is a historical novel written as a tribute to Jane Rubin’s great-grandmother, Mathilda (Tillie), who died from a ​‘woman’s disease’ in the early years of the twentieth century. It explores the ultra-conservative late Victorian era through a Jewish female character living among the poor, struggling to build a garment company and pushing back against antisemitic and misogynistic values dominating the time. She acquired wealth, only to have life upended by a cruel, unexpected challenge.

"Over There" brings four family members of "Threadbare" and "In the Hands of Women" -- all doctors and nurses -- into The Great War, each facing down authentic challenges of the period. Meticulously researched and crafted on four stages, the reader experiences the jarring reality of trench warfare, magnificent rise of the American Hospital in Paris, unimagined medical innovations owed to the dedication of healthcare workers, and the universal, frightening impact war has on children.

"The Hat Trick," Rubin’s work in process, transports her family characters into the mid-1920’s in the years before the Borscht Belt in Sullivan County, New York.

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 and Florida in the winter Between them, they have five adult children and seven grandchildren.