Diane Straus

{{short description|American magazine publisher (1951-2017)}} {{Infobox person | name = Diane Straus | image = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = October 23, 1951 | birth_place = Manhattan, New York City, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|2017|12|20|1951|10|23}} | death_place = Washington, D.C., U.S. | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | other_names = | known_for = | education = | alma_mater = Yale University | employer = | occupation = Magazine publisher | title = | term = | predecessor = | successor = | political_party = | boards = | spouse = Carll Tucker | children = 3 | parents = {{plainlist| *R. Peter Straus *Ellen Sulzberger Straus }} | relatives = {{plainlist| *Nathan Straus (paternal great-grandfather) *Nathan Straus Jr. (paternal grandfather) *Arthur Ochs Sulzberger (maternal great-cousin) *Monica Lewinsky (stepsister) }} }}

'''Diane Straus''' (October 23, 1951 – December 20, 2017) was an American magazine publisher and platform tennis player. She was the publisher of ''The American Prospect'' and ''Washington Monthly''. She was an inductee of the Platform Tennis Hall of Fame.

==Early life== Straus was born on October 23, 1951, in Manhattan, New York City.<ref name="nytimesobit">{{cite news|last1=Sandomir|first1=Richard|title=Diane Straus, Publisher of Liberal Policy Magazines, Dies at 66|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/22/obituaries/diane-straus-publisher-of-liberal-policy-magazines-dies-at-66.html|accessdate=December 27, 2017|work=The New York Times|date=December 22, 2017}}</ref> Her father, R. Peter Straus, was the owner of radio station; he later remarried Monica Lewinsky's mother, making Lewinsky Diane's stepsister.<ref name="nytimesobit"/> Her mother, Ellen Sulzberger Straus, was ''The New York Times'' publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger's cousin, making him Straus's great-cousin.<ref name="nytimesobit"/> Her paternal great-grandfather, Nathan Straus, was the owner of Macy's.

Straus graduated from Yale University in 1973.<ref name="nytimesobit"/><ref name="mountpleasantdailyvoiceobit">{{cite news|title=Diane Straus, Longtime Publisher In Westchester, Dies At 66|url=http://mountpleasant.dailyvoice.com/obituaries/diane-straus-longtime-publisher-in-westchester-dies-at-66/729700/|accessdate=December 27, 2017|work=Mount Pleasant Daily Voice|date=December 25, 2017}}</ref>

==Career== Straus was the publisher of ''The American Prospect''.<ref name="nytimesobit"/> She was also the group publisher of Manhattan Media, the publisher of ''The Westchester and Fairfield County Times'', ''The Westchester Wag'', ''Trader Publications'', and ''The Cranford Citizen and Chronicle''.<ref name="mountpleasantdailyvoiceobit"/> From 2008 to 2017, she was the publisher of ''Washington Monthly''.<ref name="nytimesobit"/> She served on the editorial board of ''The Crisis'', the official magazine of the NAACP, and ''Yale Alumni Magazine''.<ref name="mountpleasantdailyvoiceobit"/>

Straus was an avid Platform Tennis player, winning "29 National Championships with 12 different partners, including six Women's titles and two Mixed titles."<ref name="platformtennishalloffamedianestraus">{{cite web|title=Straus, Diane|url=http://platformtennishalloffame.org/inductee/diane-s-tucker/|website=Hall of Fame Inductees|publisher=Platform Tennis Museum and Hall of Fame|accessdate=December 27, 2017}}</ref> She was inducted into the Platform Tennis Hall of Fame at the Platform Tennis Museum and Hall of Fame in Scarsdale, New York, in 2004.<ref name="platformtennishalloffamedianestraus"/>

Straus worked on Howard Dean's 2004 presidential campaign.<ref name="nytimesobit"/>

==Personal life and death== Straus married Carll Tucker, who founded ''The Daily Voice''.<ref name="mountpleasantdailyvoiceobit"/> They had two sons, Peter and David, and a daughter, Rebecca.<ref name="mountpleasantdailyvoiceobit"/> They later divorced.<ref name="mountpleasantdailyvoiceobit"/>

Straus died of cancer on December 20, 2017, in Washington, D.C., at age 66.<ref name="nytimesobit"/>

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