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.
