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((Short description|American author, playwright, theater director and lecturer))
((For2|the South African footballer|Bill Strauss (footballer)|the American state legislator|William M. Straus))
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'''William Strauss''' (December 5, 1947 – December 18, 2007) was an American author, playwright, theater director, and lecturer. As an author, he is known for his work with [[Neil Howe]] on social generations and for [[Strauss–Howe generational theory]]. He is also known as the co-founder and director of the satirical musical theater group the [[Capitol Steps]], and as the co-founder of the [[Cappies]], a critics and awards program for high school theater students.

==Biography==
Strauss was born in [[Chicago]] and grew up in [[Burlingame, California]]. He graduated from [[Harvard University]] in 1969. In 1973, he received a JD from [[Harvard Law School]] and a master's in public policy from Harvard's [[John F. Kennedy School of Government]],<ref name=washpost1219>((cite news|first=Joe |last=Holley |title=Bill Strauss, 60; Political Insider Who Stepped Into Comedy |newspaper=Washington Post | url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/18/AR2007121802158.html |date=December 19, 2007))</ref> where he was a member of the program's first graduating class.<ref>((cite web|title=Harvard Kennedy School-History |url=http://www.hks.harvard.edu/about/history |accessdate=October 5, 2010))</ref>

After receiving his degrees, Strauss worked in Washington, DC as a policy aid to the Presidential Clemency Board, directing a research team writing a report on the impact of the Vietnam War on the generation that was [[Draft (conscription)|drafted]]. In 1978, Strauss and Lawrence Baskir co-authored two books on the [[Vietnam War]], ''Chance and Circumstance'', and ''Reconciliation after Vietnam''. Strauss later worked at the [[U.S. Department of Energy]] and as a committee staffer for Senator [[Charles H. Percy|Charles Percy]], and in 1980 he became chief counsel and staff director of the Subcommittee on Energy, Nuclear Proliferation, and Government Processes.<ref name=washpost1219 />

In 1981, Strauss organized a group of senate staffers to perform satirical songs at the annual office Christmas party of his employer, Senator Percy. The group was so successful that Strauss went on to co-found a professional satirical troupe, the [[Capitol Steps]], with Elaina Newport. The Capitol Steps was a $3&nbsp;million company with more than 40 employees who performed at venues across the country<ref name=washpost1219 /> until shutting down in 2021. As director, Strauss wrote many of the songs, performed regularly [[off Broadway]], and recorded 27 [[Capitol Steps#Recordings|albums]].

((external media| float = right| video1 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?17548-1/generations-history-americas-future ''Booknotes'' interview with Howe and Strauss on ''Generations'', April 14, 1991], [[C-SPAN]]| video2 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?104434-1/fourth-turning Discussion with Howe and Strauss on ''The Fourth Turning'', April 17, 1998], [[C-SPAN]]))
During the 1990s, Strauss developed another career as an historian and pop sociologist,<ref>((cite news|title=Millennials Rising: The Next Great Generation|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-375-70719-3|accessdate=8 February 2017|publisher=Publishers Weekly))</ref> examining how generational differences shape attitudes, behaviors, and the course of history. He wrote seven books on [[Generation#Social generation|social generations]] with [[Neil Howe]], beginning with ''[[Generations (book)|Generations]]'' in 1991.<ref name=BillBio>((cite web|title=William Strauss, Founding Partner |url=http://www.lifecourse.com/about/strauss.html |publisher=LifeCourse Associates |accessdate=October 5, 2010))</ref> In 1997, Strauss and Howe founded LifeCourse Associates, a publishing, speaking, and consulting company built on [[Strauss-Howe generational theory|their generational theory]]. As a partner at LifeCourse, Strauss worked as a corporate, nonprofit, education, and government affairs consultant.

In 1999, Strauss received a diagnosis of [[pancreatic cancer]]. This prompted him to found the [[Cappies]], a program to inspire the next generation of theater performers and writers.<ref name=washpost1219 /> Now an international program including hundreds of high schools, Cappies allows students to attend and review each other's plays and musicals, publish reviews in major newspapers, and hold Tonys-style Cappies award Galas, in which Strauss acted as MC for the Fairfax County program. Strauss also founded [[Critics and Awards Program for High School Students#Cappies International Theater|Cappies International Theater]], a summer program in which top Cappies winners perform plays and musicals written by teenagers.<ref>((cite news|first=Noah |last=Martin |title=The Joy of Capppies |newspaper=Centre View Northern Edition |date=August 5, 2008 |url=http://www.connectionnewspapers.com/article.asp?article=318117&paper=82&cat=226 |accessdate=October 5, 2010))</ref> In 2006 and 2007, Strauss advised creative teams of students who wrote two new musicals, ''Edit:Undo'' and ''[[Senioritis (musical)|Senioritis]]''. ''Senioritis'' was made into a movie that was released in 2007.<ref>((cite news|first=Gregg |last=Toppo |title=A School Musical in Their Own Words |newspaper=USA Today |date=July 31, 2007 |url=https://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2007-07-31-musical-national_N.htm?csp=34 |accessdate=October 5, 2010))</ref>

==Death==
((Citations needed section|date=December 2023))
Strauss died of [[pancreatic cancer]] in his home in [[McLean, Virginia]]. His wife of 34 years, Janie Strauss, lives in McLean and was a member of the [[Fairfax County Public Schools|Fairfax County School Board]] for 26 years. They have four grown children.

==Work==
Strauss authored multiple books on social generations, as well as a number of plays and musicals.

In 1978, he and Lawrence Baskir co-authored ''Chance and Circumstance'', a book about the Vietnam-era draft. Their second book, ''Reconciliation After Vietnam'' (1978) "was said to have influenced" President [[Jimmy Carter]]'s blanket [[Presidential pardon#United States|pardon]] of [[Draft evasion in the Vietnam War|Vietnam draft resisters]].<ref name=washpost1219 />

Strauss's books with Neil Howe include ''Generations'' (1991) and ''The Fourth Turning'' (1997), which examine historical generations and describe a theorized cycle of recurring mood eras in American history (now described as the [[Strauss–Howe generational theory]]).<ref>((cite book|title=Generations:The History of America's Future 1584–2069 |first1=Neil |last1=Howe |first2=William |last2=Strauss|publisher=William Morrow and Company |location=New York |year=1991|isbn=0-688-08133-9))</ref><ref>((cite book|title=The Fourth Turning |first1=Neil|last1=Howe |first2=William |last2=Strauss |publisher=Broadway Books |location=New York|year=1997 |isbn=0-7679-0046-4))</ref> Generations made a deep impression on former U.S. vice president Al Gore, who called it the most stimulating book on American history he'd ever read. He even sent a copy to each member of Congress.<ref name=Hoover>((cite news | first = Eric | last = Hoover | title = The Millennial Muddle: How stereotyping students became a thriving industry and a bundle of contradictions | date = 2009-10-11 | publisher = The Chronicle of Higher Education, Inc. | url = http://chronicle.com/article/The-Millennial-Muddle-How/48772/ | work = [[The Chronicle of Higher Education]] | accessdate = 2011-01-11 ))</ref> ''The Fourth Turning'' made a deep impression on [[Steve Bannon]], who wrote and directed ''[[Generation Zero (film)|Generation Zero]]'' (2010), a [[Citizens United (organization)|Citizens United Productions]] film on the book's theory, prior to his becoming [[White House Chief Strategist]].<ref>((cite news|last1=Peters|first1=Jeremy W.|title=Bannon's Views Can Be Traced to a Book That Warns, 'Winter Is Coming'|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/08/us/politics/stephen-bannon-book-fourth-turning.html|accessdate=13 April 2017|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=9 April 2017|page=A20))</ref>

Howe and Strauss also co-authored ''13th Gen'' (1993) about [[Generation X]], and ''Millennials Rising'' (2000) about the [[Millennial Generation]].<ref>((cite book |title=13th Gen: Abort, Retry, Ignore, Fail? |first1=Neil |last1=Howe |first2=William |last2=Strauss |publisher=Vintage Print |location=New York |year=1993 |isbn=0-679-74365-0 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/13thgenabortretr00howe ))</ref><ref>((cite book|title=Millennials Rising |first1=Neil|last1=Howe |first2=William |last2=Strauss |publisher=Vintage Books |location=New York|year=2000 |isbn=0-375-70719-0))</ref>

Eric Hoover has called the authors pioneers in a burgeoning industry of consultants, speakers and researchers focused on generations. He wrote a critical piece about the concept of "generations" and the "Millennials" (a term coined by Strauss and Howe) for the Chronicle of Higher Education.<ref name=Hoover>((cite news | first = Eric | last = Hoover | title = The Millennial Muddle: How stereotyping students became a thriving industry and a bundle of contradictions | date = 2009-10-11 | publisher = The Chronicle of Higher Education, Inc. | url = http://chronicle.com/article/The-Millennial-Muddle-How/48772/ | work = [[The Chronicle of Higher Education]] | accessdate = 2011-01-11 ))</ref> Michael Lind offered his critique of Howe's book ''Generations'' for ''The New York Times''.<ref>((cite web|title=Generation Gaps |first=Michael |last=Lind |date=January 26, 1997 |publisher=[[New York Times Review of Books]] |accessdate=1 November 2010 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/97/01/26/reviews/970126.26lindlt.html?_r=1 ))</ref>

Strauss also wrote a number of application books with Howe about the Millennials’ impact on various sectors, including ''Millennials Go to College'' (2003, 2007), ''Millennials in the Pop Culture'' (2005), and ''Millennials in K-12 Schools'' (2008).

Strauss wrote three musicals, ''MaKiddo'', ''Free-the-Music.com'', and ''Anasazi'', and two plays, ''Gray Champions'' and ''The Big Bump'', about various themes in the books he has co-authored with Howe. He also co-wrote two books of political satire with Elaina Newport, ''Fools on the Hill'' (1992) and ''Sixteen Scandals'' (2002).<ref>((cite web|title=William Strauss |url=http://www.williamstrauss.com | website=williamstrauss.com |accessdate=October 5, 2010))</ref>

==Selected bibliography==
===Books===
*''Chance and Circumstance'' (1978)
*''Reconciliation After Vietnam'' (1978)
*''Generations'' (1991)
*''Fools on the Hill'' (1992)
*''13th-GEN'' (1993)
*''The Fourth Turning'' (1997)
*''Millennials Rising'' (2000)
*''Sixteen Scandals'' (2002)
*''Millennials Go To College'' (2003, 2007)
*''Millennials and the Pop Culture'' (2006)
*''Millennials and K-12 Schools'' (2008)

===Plays and musicals===
*''MaKiddo'' (2000)
*''Free-the-Music.com'' (2001)
*''The Big Bump'' (2001)
*''Anasazi'' (2004)
*''Gray Champions'' (2005)

==Notes==
((Reflist))

==External links==
*http://www.williamstrauss.com/
*http://www.free-the-music.com/ 
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