Alix Strauss is an American author and satirist based in Manhattan. 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. Biography Strauss currently lives and works in Manhattan and is a freelance journalist. She graduated from New York University with a degree in educational theater and for the past 15 years has taught creative writing, fiction writing, writing for magazines, and personal essay writing. Writing career Strauss' published works include interviews with Viggo Mortensen, Kristin Chenoweth, Carrie Fisher, and many others. She is known for her unusual and edgy articles including, for example, one she wrote after having a consultation with sexologist Betty Dodson, Ph.D. for some masturbation tips. The Joy of Funerals was published in 2003 by St. Martin's Griffin. It has been described as "a novel in stories" tied together by the narrative that follows the life of Nina, a single woman in her thirties who attends the funerals of the previous tales' deceased characters, hoping to find some human connection. The various stories feature a variety for characters including a widow in "Recovering Larry" who looks for male companionship at the funerals she attends to the woman in "Swimming Without Annette" who has a troublesome obsession with her lover's killer. Have I Got A Guy For You: What Really Happens When Mom Fixes You Up (Polka Dot Press, 2008) is an anthology of 26 true stories, edited by Strauss, about mothers who have fixed up their daughters on horrifically bad blind dates. These true stories are personal narratives from today's top contemporary female writers. Examples of these failed dates include a mother who wrote to Michael Gelman, the producer of Live with Regis and Kelly hoping to fix him up with her daughter, a woman whose blind date serenaded her, dressed head to toe in leather in the middle of a Starbucks, a writer who spent her blind date - all eight hours of it - at a Dungeons & Dragons convention complete with costumes, and many others. In 2009 HarperCollins Publishers printed Strauss's third book Death Becomes Them: Unearthing the Suicides of the Brilliant, the Famous, and the Notorious, a non-fiction work about famous suicides. Strauss' most-recently published novel Based