Cheryl Strayed

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Cheryl Strayed (2012)

Cheryl Strayed (/ streɪd / * 17th September 1968 in Spangler , Pennsylvania , United States as Cheryl Nyland ) is an American memoir author, novelist , essayist and podcaster .

Life

Strayed was born in 1968 to Barbara Anne "Bobbi" (née Young; 1945–1991) and Ronald Nyland. When the family was six, the family moved to Chaska , Minnesota. Her parents divorced shortly afterwards. When she was 13, she moved to rural Aitkin County with her mother, stepfather Glenn Lambrecht, and her two siblings . There they lived in a house that they had built on the 40 acre lot. At first the house had neither electricity nor running water.

In 1986 she graduated from McGregor High School, Minnesota McGregor . There she was a track and cross country runner, cheerleader and homecoming queen. Strayed then studied for a year at the University of St. Thomas in Saint Paul and then moved to the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. She graduated magna cum laude in English and Women's Studies Summa cum laude . In March 1991, her mother suddenly died of lung cancer.

She married Marco Litting in August 1988 and divorced in 1995.

Strayed worked as a waitress, youth attorney, political organizer, office assistant, and paramedic . On the side she wrote and traveled around the USA.

In August 1999 she married the filmmaker Brian Lindstrom ; she has two children with him and lives in Portland , Oregon.

In 2002 she earned a Master of Fine Arts in Fiction from Syracuse University . There she was cared for by the writers George Saunders , Arthur Flowers, Mary Gaitskill and Mary Caponegro.

Strayed's first book was the novel Torch . It was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in February 2006. The book was a finalist in the Great Lakes Book Awards and was named one of the 2006 Pacific Northwest Top Ten Books by The Oregonian . In October 2012 the book was published again with a new introduction to Vintage Books.

On March 20, 2012, Strayed's second book, the memoir Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail , was published by Alfred A. Knopf . The book has been translated into thirty languages. In its first week, Wild debuted at number 7 on the New York Times Best Seller list in hardcover fiction. In June 2012, Oprah Winfrey announced that Wild would be their first choice for Oprah's Book Club 2.0. The following month it was number one on the same bestseller list. The paperback, published by Vintage Books in March 2013, was on the New York Times Best Seller list for 126 weeks . The book has also been published in the UK, Germany, Australia, Brazil, Spain, Portugal and Denmark. It won the Barnes & Noble Discover Award and the Oregon Book Award.

In July 2012, she published her third book on Vintage Books: Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar .

Strayed's fourth book, Brave Enough , was published by Knopf in the US on October 27, 2015, and by Atlantic Books in the UK a week later.

In addition to her books, she writes articles for magazines such as The Washington Post Magazine , The New York Times Magazine , Vogue , Tin House , The Missouri Review and The Sun Magazine .

In her book Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail , she describes the 1,100 mile hike that she performed on the Pacific Crest Trail in 1995 . The book was filmed as The Big Trip - Wild with Reese Witherspoon in the lead role.

Between 2014 and 2018 she hosted the Dear Sugars podcast with Steve Almond . This was produced by The New York Times and WBUR , Boston's National Public Radio .

Strayed has been a feminist for many years . She works as a public speaker and gives lectures about her life and her books.

Works

Novels

Non-fiction

Autobiography

counselor

Adaptations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Author of travel memoir Wild reconnects with long-lost half-sister who discovers they have the same father after reading a few pages of best-selling book. In: Daily Mail . September 10, 2013. Retrieved October 8, 2014.
  2. ↑ Clare Kirch: Girl gone wild: Cheryl Strayed . In: Publishers Weekly . January 9, 2012.
  3. ↑ a b Cheryl Strayed. In: Contemporary Authors Online . Gale, Detroit 2013.
  4. ↑ Mother, Brace Yourself. In: New York Times. May 27, 2009. Retrieved December 24, 2012 .
  5. ^ Top Ten Northwest . In: The Oregonian . December 31, 2006, p. O12 .
  6. ↑ Terry Richard: Pacific Crest Trail Days at hand for Cascade Locks. ( Memento from December 31, 2015 in the web archive archive.today ) In: Oregon Live. August 25, 2015.
  7. ^ Ihsan Taylor: Best Sellers - Hardcover Nonfiction. In: The New York Times . July 15, 2012, accessed December 24, 2012 .
  8. ↑ David Erickson: Missoula man's history tied to upcoming Hollywood motion picture. In: Missoulian. December 4, 2014, accessed January 8, 2015 .
  9. ↑ Wild Movie True Story - Real Cheryl Strayed vs. Reese Witherspoon. History vs Hollywood, accessed January 8, 2015 .
  10. ↑ a b Board of Directors. (No longer available online.) Vida: Women in Literary Arts, archived from the original January 14, 2013 ; Retrieved January 26, 2013 .
  11. ^ The Long Goodbye. In: The New York Times. September 4, 2018, accessed January 31, 2019 (American English).
  12. ^ A 'Dear Sugar' Podcast Is Here (and Now We Faint). Accessed July 14, 2019 .

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DATE OF BIRTH 17th September 1968
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