Six-Time, NY Times Best-Selling Author Neil Strauss Wins James Joyce Award
Six-Time, NY Times Best-Selling Author Neil Strauss Wins James Joyce Award
Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) December 8, 2010
Six-time, NY Times best-selling author Neil Strauss was recently honored with the James Joyce Award from The University College of Dublin’s Literary and Historical Society. Former winners include author Sir Salman Rushdie, scientist Noam Chomsky and actor Will Farrell.
Upon accepting the award in Dublin, Strauss remarked, “‘Ulysses’ is probably the singlemost important book that influenced me to write. But never in my life did I think that when I spent two years hanging out with the world’s greatest pickup artists or chronicling Mötley Crüe’s backstage antics that I’d somehow be standing here today.”
His books, “The Game” and “Rules Of The Game”, for which he went undercover in a
secret society of pickup artists for two years, made him an international celebrity and an accidental hero to young men around the world.
His 2009 release, “Emergency”, which Rolling Stone described as “an escape plan” for a “world in crisis,” spent three months on the New York Times bestseller list and cemented Strauss’s reputation as, in the words of Maxim magazine, “a George Plimpton for the 21st century.” Columbia Pictures has optioned the rights to develop “Emergency” into a feature film produced by Robert Downey Jr., Susan Downey and Michael DeLuca.
His latest book, “Everyone Loves You When You’re Dead” (to be released in March) is a collection of 227 of the best, craziest, most soul-bearing moments from the author’s celebrity adventures while working as a journalist and includes pieces on Tom Cruise, Lady Gaga, Courtney Love, Led Zeppelin, Chuck Berry, Britney Spears and hundreds of others.
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