Gladys Eleanor Guggenheim Straus (August 15, 1895 – March 14, 1980)[1] was an American heiress who became an expert on food and nutrition.

[4] In her youth, her parents lived in Manhattan and bought the former Howard Gould estate in Port Washington on the Gold Coast of Long Island.

She was educated at the Rosemary Hall in Greenwich, Connecticut, from 1910 to 1913 and planned to attend Bryn Mawr College but married Straus instead.

She was also a trustee Mount Sinai Hospital for more than fifty years and served as vice president of the board from 1951 to 1971.

[7] Together, Gladys and Roger lived at 6 East 93rd Street in Manhattan and their country home in Purchase, New York, and were the parents of two sons and one daughter: Her husband suffered a heart attack while fishing near his lodge at Grahamsville and died at Liberty, New York, on July 28, 1957.