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Cheryl Strayed is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir Wild, the New York Times bestsellers Tiny Beautiful Things and Brave Enough, and the novel Torch.
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Key Facts & Information
EARLY LIFE
- Cheryl was born in Spangler, Pennsylvania, on September 17, 1968 to Barbara Anne and Ronald Nyland.
- Despite having a rather rough childhood, she finished high school with flying colors as a track and cross country runner, cheerleader, and homecoming queen.
- She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree, graduating magna cum laude with a double major in English and Women’s Studies from the University of Minnesota.
WRITING CAREER
- Prior to publishing her major works, Cheryl contributed essays to various magazines including The New York Times Magazine, Tin House, The Washington Post Magazine, The Sun Magazine, Vogue, and The Missouri Review.
- She also won several awards such as the Pushcart Prize for her essay “Munro Country” and The Best American Essay three times.
TORCH
- Language: English
- Genre: Fiction
- Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Published: February 1, 2006
- Media: type print, digital, audio
- Pages: 336 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 978-0618472178
- Torch book summary
- “Be incredible!” That’s the advice Teresa Rae Wood gives the listeners of her popular local radio show, Modern Pioneers!, a kind of hippie Prairie Home Companion. Teresa has taken the advice to heart in her own life. As a teen mother and abused wife, she escaped with her two children to rural Minnesota, fell in love with a local carpenter, and raised good kids, Claire and Joshua. Then, at only 38, she receives the devastating news that she is gravely ill. In just a few weeks, she is gone.
WILD
- Genre: Memoirs; Education and Reference
- Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
- Publication: March 20, 2012
- Media type: Hardcover, Kindle Edition, Audio CD, Audible Audio
- Pages: 336 pages (hardcover)
- ISBN: 978-0307592736
- Wild book summary
- At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother’s death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, she decided to hike the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to Washington State – alone. She had no experience as a long-distance hiker, and the trail was little more than “an idea, vague and outlandish and full of promise.”
- Strayed faces down rattlesnakes and black bears, intense heat and record snowfalls, and both the beauty and loneliness of the trail. Told with great suspense and style, sparkling with warmth and humor, Wild vividly captures the terrors and pleasures of one young woman forging ahead against all odds on a journey that maddened, strengthened, and ultimately healed her.
- Wild reached #1 on the New York Times Best Seller list beginning July 2012 and stayed there for the next 7 weeks. When it was published in paperback, the book spent 126 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list.
- It also won the Barnes & Noble Discover Award (2012) and the Oregon Book Award (2013).
- In 2014, the book was made into a movie starring Reese Witherspoon.
TINY BEAUTIFUL THINGS
- Subject: Self-help
- Publisher: Vintage Books
- Published: July 10, 2012
- Media type: Print, digital, audio
- Pages: 368 (paperback)
- ISBN 978-0307949332
- Tiny: Beautiful Things Summary
- “Tiny Beautiful Things” is a powerful collection of letters and essays from author Cheryl Strayed’s two years as “Sugar”, the anonymous advice columnist for “The Rumpus”.
- She responded to troubled readers who were coping with loss and other life problems by giving advice on how to handle those emotions. Her intimate replies schooled both the letter writers and her audience on how to handle a range of difficult emotions including heartbreak, depression, jealousy, and grief.
- In July 2012, Tiny Beautiful Things debuted at No. 5 on the New York Times Best Seller List in the category of advice and self-help.
- In 2016, the book was translated into a sold-out stage production at The Public Theater in New York.
BRAVE ENOUGH
- Subject: Self-help
- Publisher: Atlantic Books
- Published: October 27, 2015
- Media type: Print, digital, audio
- Pages: 160 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 0345810872
- Brave Enough review
- This book gathers, each on a single page, more than 100 of Strayed’s indelible quotes and thoughts–“mini instruction manuals for the soul” that urge us toward the incredible capacity for love, compassion, forgiveness, and endurance that is within us all.
PERSONAL LIFE AND ENDEAVORS
- Cheryl married Marco Littig in August 1988 but they divorced in 1995. She changed her surname to Strayed shortly after.
- She then married filmmaker Brian Lindstrom in August 1999 and had two children.
- She is known as a long-time supporter of the feminist movement and other progressive causes.
- She has also given lectures about her life and her books while leading writing seminars around the world.
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