Neil Strauss

Neil Strauss is an award-winning, ten-time New York Times best-selling author.

Strauss was a cultural reporter and columnist at The New York Times for a decade, and has been a contributing editor at Rolling Stone for over twenty years. He won the ASCAP- Deems Taylor Award, in addition to the L.A. Press Club Journalist’s Award, for his cover stories for Rolling Stone on figures from Elon Musk to Tom Cruise.

His most recent book, Kevin Hart's I Can't Make This Up: Life Lessons, entered The New York Times bestseller list at #1 while topping the best-selling audiobook list at the same time.

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