| Birth Date: | [1] |
| Alma Mater: | Amherst College Harvard Graduate School of Education |
| Notable Works: | Will Grayson, Will Grayson (editor) The Fault in Our Stars (editor) |
| Spouse: | David Feldman |
Julie Ellyn Strauss-Gabel (born 1972) is an American publisher and editor of books for young adults. She has gotten numerous titles on The New York Times Best Seller list.[2]
Strauss-Gabel grew up in White Plains, New York. Her father was a forensic photographer, and her mother was a teacher of home economics.[3] She attended Amherst College where she edited the college newspaper, The Amherst Student.[3] She graduated cum laude from Amherst, then graduated from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.[3] She married David Feldman, whom she had met at Amherst, in 2000. Feldman is a writer and puppeteer for children's television.[3]
Strauss-Gabel was associate editor at Clarion Books[3] and was later an editor at Hyperion Books for five years before becoming editor and publisher at Dutton Books, an imprint of the Penguin Group.[4] [5] [6] In one week in April 2015, novels that she edited occupied five of the top ten spots.[2] According to one count, she has edited 22 books which were New York Times Bestsellers.[2] She edited titles such as Will Grayson, Will Grayson.[7] Her books If I Stay and The Fault in Our Stars were adapted into movies.[8] Her books have won book awards including the Printz, two Edgars, a Boston Globe-Horn, and the E.B. White Read Aloud Award.[1] The New York Times described her as having a "knack for spotting and developing talent".[2]