 Her 2019 book, "", about the lives of the women murdered by Jack the Ripper was awarded the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-fiction.Rubenhold was born in Los Angeles to a British father and American mother  and undertook a BA in History at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.She then gained an MA in British History and History of Art and an MPhil in History from the University of Leeds, on subject of marriage and child-rearing in the eighteenth century.