Darin Strauss

Darin Strauss is the author of the international bestseller Chang and Eng, and the New York Times Notable Book The Real McCoy, one of the New York Public Library's "25 Books to Remember of 2002." His work has been translated into fourteen languages, and he teaches writing at New York University, for which he won a 2005 "Outstanding Dozen" teaching award. Also a screenwriter, Darin sold the rights to Chang and Eng to Disney, and is currently adapting the novel for the screen with the actor Gary Oldman. Another screenplay on which he collaborated is in pre-production at Paramount Studios. His new novel More Than It Hurts You, will be published in June 2008, with a book of short-stories and non-fiction essays, Truth and Lies, set to come out later in the year. Darin was awarded a 2006 Guggenheim Fellowship in fiction writing.