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Darin Strauss

Biography

Darin Strauss

Darin Strauss is the bestselling author of several books. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in fiction writing and numerous other awards, Strauss has seen his work translated into 14 languages and published in more than 20 countries. He is a clinical associate professor of writing at New York University, and he lives with his wife and children in Brooklyn.

Darin Strauss

Books by Darin Strauss

by Darin Strauss

In this stunning novel, Darin Strauss combines fiction with astonishing fact to tell the story of history’s most famous twins. Born in Siam in 1811, Chang and Eng Bunker were international celebrities before the age of twenty. Touring the world’s stages as a circus act, they settled in the American South just prior to the Civil War and lived for more than six decades never more than seven inches apart, attached at the chest by a small band of skin and cartilage.