Darin Strauss

About

An American fiction writer, he is best known for novels such as The Real McCoy, Chang and Eng, and Half a Life. He was the 2011 recipient of a National Book Critics Circle Award.

Before Fame

He studied at Tufts University. He later taught writing at New York University.

Trivia

He won the Guggenheim Fellowship for Fiction Writing.

Family Life

He married Susannah Meadows, a New York Times columnist. He and Meadows became parents to identical twin boys.

Associated With

Author Nick Hornby praised Strauss's literary work.