Guest Speaker: Darin Strauss

Darin Strauss is the author of the bestselling novels Chang & Eng, The Real McCoy, More Than It Hurts You and most recently the NBCC-winning memoir Half a Life. These have been New York Times Notable Books, Newsweek, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Tribune, NPR Best Books of the Year, among other honors.  The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and The National Book Critics Circle Award, Strauss has been translated into fourteen languages and published in nineteen countries. He is the Clinical Associate Professor of fiction at NYU.  Website: http://www.darinstrauss.com.  Twitter: @darinstrauss