About
the
Author
- A Short Biography
Harry Rubin was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on a Friday the 13th day of March in 1925. After graduation from high school in 1942, he lied about his age to enlist in the Army along with his classmates. He spent the next 33 years in the Army serving in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. He is a graduate of the Armor School at Fort Knox, and the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth. He has attended Temple University, the University of Maryland, and earned a Bachelor of Science Degree from Trinity University. He retired in 1975 as a Regular Army Colonel from his final assignment as Chief of Staff of the 24th Infantry Division at Fort Stewart, Georgia.
Following retirement, he began a second career as a writer working as a columnist for a local newspaper with a weekly column in the Sunday edition. He began writing short stories and poetry, and self-published the chapbook Limericks and Other Stuff. He also has had some short stories in national magazines. His short story "No Wrath in These Grapes" is in the recently published Chicken Soup for the Wine Lover's Soul.
His memoir, Rube: Memoir of a Soldier was done with a limited printing for members of the family. In 2004, his older brother, a research scientist died, and Harry wrote a biography to honor him titled, A Weatherman for All Seasons - The Life of Morton J Rubin. It too was a limited printing for members of the family, a few of his brother's scientific colleagues, and a dozen or so university libraries and archives where his scientific articles and monographs were on file.
The Australian Government named a mountain in Antarctica in his honor. If you ever happen to be at Latitude 75 degrees 25 minutes south, Longitude 65 degrees 40 minutes east, and look to the south, you will see Mount Rubin, a mountain that to the author's knowledge has never been climbed by any human.
Chasing Pirates was his first novel. He got the idea when he read about pirates attacking cruising yachts off the coast of Yemen in Cruising World Magazine.
The Counterfeit War is his second novel, and it came as a result of reading about the prevalence of counterfeit paper money that resulted in the establishment of the Secret Service. Hugo Chavez made the perfect villain for it.
The third novel in the series, using the same small US Navy Crew, is The Missing Bomb. The crew is on a coastal trawler in Wassau Sound, 16 miles from Savannah, Georgia, looking for a thermonuclear weapon jettisoned into the Sound in 1958 that has never been found. The crew has an eventful cruise searching for it with many interesting adventures.
U-Boat Secret Mission is about the cruise of a fictional German submarine, the U-724 in April and May 1945 that raises problems for the Office of Naval Intelligence and our small Navy crew more than sixty years later.
His fifth novel in the series is Sunken Treasure about Spanish galleons that sunk on a reef in 1659 during a hurricane and 350 years later affects our small Navy crew and leads them to an interesting adventure.
The sixth novel is Operation Narco Sub, which concerns the latest drug-smuggling method developed by the cocaine cartel, with tons of the drug traveling north from Colombia in small submersibles built in jungle boat yards. The US Navy is asked to join a DEA/Coast Guard Joint Task Force to help stop them.
He is currently thinking about a seventh novel in his Navy adventure series and has ben looking at charts of the Bahamas where his small crew has not visited lately. He is also considering the long dormant plot about Llamas and Leopard Dogs that has been in a recess of his mind. One of those stories will surface soon and he will write it as his latest novel.
Harry is a widower after his wife of almost 60 years passed away. They have three daughters, two grandsons, and now live in Coastal Georgia with his five very spoiled house cats. His sloop Thunder was a familiar sight in the waters off the coast of Georgia where he sailed quite often. The storm described in the first two novels was a real one he experienced on a cruise from Walker Cay in the Bahamas to Sapelo Sound in Georgia. It was two days of 55 knot winds and 20 foot seas.
Harry is growing old gracefully while drinking red wine,
eating dark chocolate, and dreaming up new adventures he can use to challenge
his small U.S. Navy Crew.
