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Cheryl Strayed - Biography, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Filmography
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Born September 17, 1968, Spangler, Pennsylvania, USA - American writer, memoirist, essayist, producer and publicist.
At the age of five, she moved with her family to Chaska, Minnesota. Her parents divorced a year later. When she was 13, her mother and stepfather Glenn Lambrecht, sister Karen, and brother Leif moved to Aitkin County, Minnesota, in a home they'd built on 40 acres of their own land. There was no electricity or running water in the house for several years. The house was connected to the plumbing after Cheryl entered college.
In 1986, at the age of 17, Strayd graduated from McGregor High School in McGregor, Minnesota, where she trained in athletics and cheerleading. The fictional Coltrap County in Torch is based on her memories of McGregor and Aitkin County. Cheryl went to St. Thomas in Saint Paul, but in her sophomore year she transferred to the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, where she earned her Bachelor of Arts. In March 1991 her mother, Bobby Lambrecht, died of lung cancer at the age of 45. Strayd has described her death in each of her books and several essays.
Straid has worked as a waitress, youth advocate, political organizer, temporary office worker, and nurse. In 2002 she received her Master of Fine Arts from Syracuse University, where she studied with writers such as George Sanders, Arthur Flowers and Mary Caponegro.
Strade's personal essays have been widely published in national newspapers and magazines and have been featured on the Best American Essays list twice. She won the Pushcart Prize for her essay "Munro Country," which first appeared in The Missouri Review. Cheryl's second book, Wild. Dangerous Journey as a Way to Find Yourself ”was published in the USA by Alfred A. Knopf on March 20, 2012, and has been translated into more than thirty languages. Since July 15, 2012, for seven consecutive weeks, the book topped the New York Times bestseller list. In June 2012, TV host Oprah Winfrey announced that Wild had been selected as the first novel for her new Oprah Book Club 2.0.
In 2010, Strayd began writing Dear Sugar, a tip column for the literary site The Rumpus. In July 2012, a column was published by Vintage Books under the title "Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar". The book debuted at No. 5 on the New York Times Bestseller List for Self-Improvement Editions, and has also been published in other countries.
Strade's first book, The Torch, published in 2006, received critical acclaim and received The Great Lakes Book Award. The book was selected by The Oregonian as one of the Top 10 Books of 2006 by authors from the Northwest Coast of the United States.
