Half a Life (memoir)

Half a Life
AuthorDarin Strauss
LanguageEnglish
GenreMemoir
PublishedAugust 2010 McSweeney's/Random House
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages224
AwardsNational Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography
ISBN0-8129-8253-3

Half a Life is a book by American author Darin Strauss. It received the National Book Critics Circle Award for memoir in 2011. The memoir grew out of a 2008 This American Life episode entitled "Life After Death," in which the author addressed the effects of a high school traffic accident.