Neil Strauss is a legendary ten-time, New York Times best selling author, speaker and coach. His books, The Game and Rules of of The Game, for which he went undercover in a secret society of pick up artists for two years, made him an international celebrity and an accidental hero (and villain) to singles around the world. Both books topped The New York Times best-selling list and were #1 on Amazon, and the former has the dubious distinction of being the most stolen book at Barnes & Noble besides The Bible.

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Strauss then completely revamped his perceptions on relationship with his book, The Truth: An Uncomfortable Book about Relationships released in October 2015. In the book, he explores the hidden forces that cause people to choose each other, stay together, and break up.

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Strauss has been a music critic, cultural reporter, investigative journalist and columnist at The New York Times for a decade, where he won the ASCAP- Deems Taylor Award. He has also won awards for his cover stories for Rolling Stone, for which he's well known for earning the trust of some of the most guarded and secretive celebrities in the world. These interviews were collected in his best-selling book Everyone Loves You When You're Dead. Just this year, he was honored the Los Angeles Press Club’s Journalist Award for his Rolling Stone article on Elon Musk: The Architect of Tomorrow.

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His Book Emergency, which Rolling Stone described as "an escape plan" for a "world in crisis," spent three months on the New York Times best seller list and cemented Strauss' reputation as, in the words of Maxim Magazine, " a George Plimpton for the 21st century." While going undercover during these books, Strauss has been named everything from the best pickup artist in the world (by the Associated Press during The Game) to receiving the President's Volunteer Service Award (for his search -and- rescue work in Emergency).

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Hollywood hails Strauss as one of the most sought after ghostwriters in town. He has coauthored books Mötley Crue's The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band, Marilyn Manson's The Long Hard Road Out of Hell and Dave Navarro's Don't Try This at Home. The Dirt was hailed by Q Magazine as " the most unputdownable rock books of the year, or possibly any year," while Publishers Weekly cited The Long Hard Road Out of Hell as possibly the highest -selling rock biography of all time." The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band is currently in post production as a biopic on Netflix set to debut later this year.

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Strauss has also contributed to Esquire, Maxim, Spin, Entertainment Weekly, Details, The Source, New York Newsday, and many other magazines, newspapers and online media outlets. He began his career on the staff of Village Voice while still a college undergraduate. In 1990, also while in college, he edited the book Radiotext(e) for the publisher Semiotext(e). Since then, his work has appeared in over thirty books, including several other bestsellers. His most recently book, Kevin Hart's I Can't Make This Up: Life Lessons was both a New York Times best seller and topped the most downloaded audio book at the same time.

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His most recent book, Kevin Hart's I Can't Make This Up: Life Lessons was both a New York Times best seller and topped the most downloaded audio book at the same time.

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Coaching and mentoring have always been a passion for Strauss. His love of learning and teaching propels him to speak at conferences all over the world. He formed an exclusive, high level, international personal growth, networking and mastermind group called The Society International in 2011. The Society International continues to grow as a one-of-a-kind global group of like-minded people focused on becoming their best selves. It's members comprise award-winning artists, international entrepreneurs, tech CEOs, professional athletes, and visionaries who defy categorization.

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Little known facts about Strauss include: He hosts an epic weekly book club , participates in a weekly workout that the New Yorker deemed as " A radical underwater workout", acted on "Curb Your Enthusiasm", appeared in videos by Beck and 30 Seconds to Mars, has appeared on The Jimmy Kimmel Show, The View, The Carson Daly Show and dozens of other talk shows. He once hosted his own interview show, The Inner Circle with Neil Strauss, on Sirius XM, has received hate mail from Phil Collins that ended with the words "fuck you." and enjoys all things VR.

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Neil resides in Malibu, California with his wife, son, and a mini gang of rescue Shih Tzus.

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