Alix Strauss

Who is Alix Strauss?

Alix Strauss is a four-time published author and media social satirist based in Manhattan. She has been a featured trend journalist on CBS, CNN, ABC, NBC's today show and various national morning and talk shows. Her articles have appeared in The New York Post, Time Magazine, The New York Times, Marie Claire, Entertainment Weekly, Self, and many other publications. Her four published books include her two non-fiction works Have I Got A Guy For You and Death Becomes Them: Unearthing the Suicides of the Brilliant, the Famous, and the Notorious, and her two works of fiction The Joy of Funerals and Based Upon Availability. She was chosen as a speaker for both the Jewish Book Council and Israel Bonds. Strauss also spoke last year at the University of Connecticut's suicide prevention week in conjunction with Death Becomes Them.

Strauss lectures extensively not only for bookstores and book clubs, but at conferences, colleges and universities, synagogues, libraries, country clubs, etc. For her most recently published novel Based Upon Availability, a novel that takes place in Manhattan's swanky Four Seasons Hotel, Strauss designed a book tour around hotels. She is in fact known for her unusual reading events and was quoted by Publishers Weekly to say "I believe in finding venues that are in keeping with the theme of one's work." True to her words, Strauss held the launch party for her first novel The Joy of Funerals at the Frank E. Campbell funeral home. She also held a reading for Death Becomes Them: Unearthing the Suicides of the Brilliant, the Famous & the Notorious at the Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.