Deborah Hart Strober was born in into a family of musicians and journalists in Newark, New Jersey. Before embarking on both her marriage to Gerald Strober and her career as a writer, she performed as Deborah Hart in musical theatre and in concert. Later, she was for five years a cultural columnist and general assignment reporter with the New York Jewish Week.

Gerald S. Strober was born in Brooklyn, New York. He received an M.A. in Jewish Studies from New York University and served on the national staff of the American Jewish Committee.  He is the co-author of Religion and the New Majority and the author of American Jews: Community in Crisis.

The Strobers, who have been writing together since 1989, are the co-authors of nine books to date. They include “Let Us Begin Anew:” An Oral History of the Kennedy Presidency, whose text was incorporated into the interactive computer of Legacy Room of the Kennedy Presidential Library, in Cambridge, Massachusetts; Nixon: An Oral History of His Presidency; Reagan: The Man and His Presidency; The Monarchy: An Oral Biography of Elizabeth II; His Holiness the Dalai Lama: The Oral Biography; Giuliani: Flawed or Flawless?; Israel at Sixty: an Oral History of the Nation Reborn; and Catastrophe: The Story of Bernard L. Madoff, The Man Who Swindled the World. More...

Catastrophe: The Story of Bernard L. Madoff, The Man Who Swindled the World by Deborah and Gerald Strober will be the first biography of the notorious financier to hit stores. Ripped from the headlines, Catastrophe presents Bernie Madoff’s real story, including his confession, unlikely rise, and incredible crash, as well as the stories of the countless organizations and individuals he bilked out of more than $50 billion.

Read the press release from PR Newswire and Cindy Adams's coverage of the book in the New York Post

About the Authors

Gerald and Deborah Hart Strober are the authors of oral histories of the Kennedy, Nixon, and Reagan presidencies and of oral biographies of Queen Elizabeth II, the Dalai Lama, Billy Graham, and Rudolph Giuliani. Their latest book, Israel at Sixty, was published in February 2008. The Strobers were consultants to several major Jewish organizations including the Jewish Agency for Israel, the World Zionist Organization, the National Conference on Soviet Jewry, and the Jewish National Fund. Deborah Strober performed professionally as a singer and was the cultural columnist for The New York Jewish Week.

Gerald Strober served on the national staff of the American Jewish Committee and is the author of American Jews: Community in Crisis. The Strobers live in Manhattan and in Herzliya-by-the-Sea, Israel.

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