Darin Strauss
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Strauss before the 2010 National Book Critics Circle awards; his Half a Life won in autobiography
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1 March 1970 Roslyn Harbor (Long Island), United States |
| Occupation | Author |
| Nationality | American |
| Period | 21st century |
| Spouse | Susannah Meadows |
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Darin Strauss (born March 1, 1970) is a best-selling American writer whose work has earned a number of awards, including, among numerous others, a Guggenheim Fellowship and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Strauss's most recent book is Half a Life, which won the 2011 NBCC Award for memoir/autobiography.
Darin Strauss was born in the Long Island town of Roslyn Harbor. He attended Tufts University, where he studied with Jay Cantor.
His ALA Alex Award-winning, best-selling 2000 first novel Chang & Eng, - a runner-up for the Barnes & Noble Discover Award, the Literary Lions Award, a Borders Award winner, and a nominee for the PEN Hemingway award, among others — is based on the lives of the famous conjoined twins Chang and Eng. Chang & Eng was a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year, a Newsweek Best Book of the Year, among others. The rights to the novel were optioned to Disney, for the director Julie Taymor; the actor Gary Oldman purchased the rights from Disney. Strauss and Oldman are together adapting Chang and Eng for the screen.
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