Nora Benjamin Kubie (January 4, 1899 - September 8, 1988) was an American writer, artist and amateur archaeologist.
Born Eleanor Gottheil, she was the daughter of Muriel H. and Paul Gotteil, an executive with the Cunard Line in New York.
[4] She began her literary career writing nautical stories and juvenile novels, later focusing on Jewish historical fiction and archaeology.
[6] Her books about Israel for example, were written after she moved there in the early 1950s, where she lived in Ein Hod, a writers' colony.
She traveled throughout the Middle East as an amateur archaeologist and produced an account of the early English explorer, Sir Austen Henry Layard.