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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" has been accepted for an upcoming publication of Chicken Soup for a 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.
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. He is now working on his third novel with the title One of Our Bombs is Missing.
He and his wife of more than 55 years have three daughters, two grandsons, and now live in Coastal Georgia with their 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 with waterspouts described in both 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.