Cheryl Strayed

thumb|Cheryl Strayed in 2012 Cheryl Strayed (née Nyland; born September 17, 1968) is an American writer and podcast host. Her 2012 memoir Wild (memoir) Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail is an international bestseller, adapted into the 2014 Academy Award-nominated movie Wild (2014 film) Wild. Quotes It hadn't occurred to me that my mother would die. Until she was dying, the thought had never entered my mind. She was monolithic and insurmountable, the keeper of my life. She would grow old and still work in the garden. The image was fixed in my mind, like one of the memories from her childhood that I'd made her explain so intricately that I remembered it as if it were mine. She would be old and beautiful like the black-and-white photo of Georgia O'Keeffe I'd once sent her. I held fast to this image for the first couple weeks after we left the Mayo Clinic, and then, once she was admitted to the hospice wing of the hospital in Duluth, that image unfurled, gave way to others, more modest and true. https://books.google.com/books?id=OSUayFddVccC&pg=PA20 Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Oprah's Book Club 2.0) 978-0-307-95765-8 20 March 2012 Knopf Doubleday Publishing (quote from p. 20) ... a secret inside myself was that I had to be a writer. Ever since I learned how to read when I was six or seven, I just knew: this was my thing — this was my calling. This is what I was going to do in the world. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY_pWZIhrKg&t=765s Cheryl Strayed: Love, Life and Lessons Learned in "Wild" Concordia University, St. Paul, YouTube 3 November 2014 (quote at 12:45 of 1:14:23 in video) Quotes about Cheryl Strayed ... For three months she hiked 1,100 miles alone along the Pacific Crest Trail, a continuous wilderness undulating from Mexico to Canada over nine mountain ranges – the Laguna Mountains Laguna to the Cascade Range Cascades. ...On her epic trek, this novice hiker faced temperatures of 100 degrees in the shade on the Modoc Plateau Modoc plateau and record snowfalls in the high sierras, not to mention bears, rattlesnakes and failed waterholes. ... Sara Wheeler, https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/jan/06/wild-cheryl-strayed-review Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found by Cheryl Strayed – review The Observer 6 January 2013 External links Cheryl Strayed http://www.cherylstrayed.com/ Dear Sugars podcast "Dear Sugar" advice column Category:1968 births Category:Living people Category:Feminists from the United States Category:Non-fiction authors from the United States Category:Novelists from the United States Category:Women authors from the United States Category:Women born in the 1960s Category:Memoirists from the United States Category:People from Pennsylvania