谢丽尔·史翠德

谢丽尔·史翠德（英语：Cheryl Strayed，Nyland，1968年9月17日—）是一位美国女性作家。她在国家杂志和报纸上发表过多篇散文随笔，并两度入选最佳美国散文。发表在 The Missouri Review 上的Munro Country一文还赢得普希卡奖。

2012年出版的回忆录于2014年被让-马克·瓦雷改拍成电影《走出荒野》，瑞茜·威瑟斯彭饰演谢丽尔·史翠德。

个人生活

1999年，她与电影制作人布莱恩·林德斯特罗姆结婚，两人育有两个孩子，一家人居住在俄勒冈州波特兰。

她是一位女性主义活动家，是公益团体 VIDA: Women in Literary Arts 的理事会成员。

出版著作

Strayed, Cheryl (2006). Torch, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 336 pages. ISBN 978-0618472178

Strayed, Cheryl (2012). Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, Knopf, 336 pages. ISBN 978-0307592736

Strayed, Cheryl (2012). Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar, Vintage Books, 368 pages. ISBN 978-0307949332

Strayed, Cheryl (2012). Torch, reissue with new introduction by the author, Vintage Contemporaries, 432 pages. ISBN 978-0345805614

Cheryl Strayed (née Nyland; born September 17, 1968) is an American writer and podcast host. She has written four books: the novel Torch (2006) and the nonfiction books Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (2012), Tiny Beautiful Things (2012), and Brave Enough (2015). Wild, the story of Strayed's 1995 hike up the Pacific Crest Trail, is an international bestseller and was adapted into the 2014 Academy Award-nominated film Wild.

Early life

Strayed was born in Spangler, Pennsylvania, the second daughter of Barbara Anne "Bobbi" (née Young; 1945–1991) and Ronald Nyland. From age three to six, Strayed was sexually abused by her paternal grandfather. At age six, her family moved from Pennsylvania to Chaska, Minnesota. Her parents divorced soon after and Cheryl's father left her life. When Cheryl was 12 her mother married Glenn Lambrecht, and the following year the family moved to rural Aitkin County, where they lived in a house that they built themselves on 40 acres. The house did not have electricity or running water for the first few years. Indoor plumbing was installed after Strayed moved away for college. Strayed also has two half-siblings from her father's second marriage, with whom she connected only after Wild was published.

In 1986, at the age of 17, Strayed graduated from McGregor High School in McGregor, Minnesota. During the summer of 1987, Strayed worked as a newspaper reporter for her hometown county weekly, the Aitkin Independent Age in Aitkin, Minnesota. She loosely based the fictional Coltrap County in her novel Torch on McGregor and Aitkin County. Strayed attended her freshman year of college at the University of St. Thomas in Saint Paul, but by her sophomore year, she transferred to the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, where she received her Bachelor of Arts degree, with a double major in English and Women's Studies.

In March 1991, when Strayed was a senior in college, her mother, Bobbi Lambrecht, died suddenly of lung cancer at the age of 45. Strayed has described this loss as her "genesis story." She has written about her mother's death and her grief in each of her books and several of her essays. She has also written about her experiences dabbling in heroin use in her twenties.

Strayed worked as a waitress, youth advocate, political organizer, temporary office employee, and emergency medical technician throughout her 20s and early 30s, while writing and often traveling around the United States. In 2002, she earned a Master of Fine Arts in fiction writing from Syracuse University, where her mentors were writers George Saunders, Arthur Flowers, Mary Gaitskill, and Mary Caponegro.

Career

Strayed writes the Dear Sugar advice column, which is published in her online newsletter. She first began writing the column on the website The Rumpus starting in March 2010, when the column's originator Steve Almond asked her to take over for him. She wrote the column anonymously until February 14, 2012, when she revealed her identity as "Sugar" at a "Coming Out Party" hosted by the Rumpus at the Verdi Club in San Francisco.

In addition to her column and books, Strayed has published essays in The Washington Post Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, Vogue, Tin House, The Missouri Review, and The Sun Magazine. Her work has been selected three times for inclusion in The Best American Essays ("Heroin/e" in the 2000 edition, "The Love of My Life" in the 2003 edition, and "My Uniform" in the 2015 edition). Strayed was the guest editor of The Best American Essays 2013 and The Best American Travel Writing 2018. She won a Pushcart Prize for her essay "Munro Country," which was originally published in The Missouri Review. The essay is about a letter Strayed received from Alice Munro when she was a young writer, and Munro's influence on Strayed's writing.