Darin Strauss’s most recent book, The Queen of Tues­day, came out in August 2020 and was a Wash­ing­ton Post best book of the year, among oth­ers. He’s also the author of the best­selling nov­els Chang & Eng, The Real McCoy, More Than It Hurts You, the NBCC-win­ning mem­oir Half a Life, and a best­selling com­ic-book series, Olivia Twist. These have been New York Times Notable Books; and Newsweek, Los Ange­les Times, San Fran­cis­co Chron­i­cle, Ama­zon, Chica­go Tri­bune and NPR Best Books of the Year, among others. 

The recip­i­ent of a Guggen­heim Fel­low­ship, a Nation­al Book Crit­ics Cir­cle Award, an Amer­i­can Library award, and numer­ous addi­tion­al prizes, Strauss has been trans­lat­ed into four­teen lan­guages and pub­lished in nine­teen coun­tries. In addi­tion, Darin has col­lab­o­rat­ed on screen­plays with Gary Old­man and Julie Tay­mor, and is a Clin­i­cal Pro­fes­sor of Fic­tion at New York Uni­ver­si­ty. He is cur­rent­ly a final­ist for the Joyce Car­ol Oates Award.