Darin Strauss

Darin Strauss is the acclaimed author of the memoir Half a Life, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography, a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice, an Entertainment Weekly “Must List” selection, a Chicago Tribune Editor’s Pick, and one of the Best Books of the Year by the San Francisco Chronicle.  He is also the renowned author of the novels Chang and Eng, The Real McCoy, and the international bestseller More Than It Hurts You. Strauss is a compelling speaker whose experience includes universities, libraries, book festivals, and corporations.

Strauss’s work has appeared in Esquire, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Newsweek, and many other publications. Half a Life was excerpted in GQ, This American Life, The Times of London, and The Daily Mail (UK). He has appeared on Good Morning America, The Leonard Lopate Show, NBC News, Times Talk, The Diane Rehm Show, CBS’s The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, and others. His work has been translated into fourteen languages and published in nineteen countries.

As a screenwriter, Darin has written the script for Chang and Eng with Gary Oldman and has worked with director Julie Taymor for Disney. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in fiction writing, he is a clinical associate professor at NYU’s creative writing program.