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Cheryl Strayed (; née Nyland; born September 17, 1968) is an American memoirist, novelist, and essayist. The author of four books, her award-winning writing has been published widely in national magazines and anthologies. Strayed's first book, the novel ''Torch'', was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in February 2006 to positive critical reviews. ''Torch'' was a finalist for the Great Lakes Book Award and selected by ''The Oregonian'' as one of the top ten books of 2006 by writers living in the Pacific Northwest. In October 2012, ''Torch'' was re-issued by Vintage Books with a new introduction by Strayed. Strayed's second book, the memoir ''Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail'' was published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf on March 20, 2012, and has been translated into more than forty languages. The week of its publication, Wild debuted at number 7 on the ''New York Times'' Best Seller list in hardcover non-fiction. In June 2012, Oprah Winfrey announced that ''Wild'' was her first selection for her new Oprah's Book Club 2.0. The next month Wild reached number 1 on the ''New York Times'' Best Seller list, a spot it held for seven consecutive weeks. The paperback edition of Wild was published by Vintage Books in March of 2013, where it has spent 126 weeks on the ''New York Times'' Best Seller list. The book has also been a bestseller around the world--in the UK, Germany, Australia, Brazil, Spain, Portugal, Denmark and elsewhere. Wild won the Barnes & Noble Discover Award and the Oregon Book Award. In July 2012, Vintage Books published Strayed's third book: ''Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar''. The book debuted in the advice and self-help category on the ''New York Times'' Best Seller list at number 5 and it has also been published internationally. ''Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar'' is a selection of Strayed's popular "Dear Sugar" advice column, which she wrote for no pay for the literary web site The Rumpus from 2010 to 2012. Strayed's fourth book, ''Brave Enough'' was published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf on October 27, 2015 and in the United Kingdom a week later by Atlantic Books . It debuted in the advice and self-help category on the ''New York Times'' Best Seller list at number 10. == Early life == Strayed was born in Spangler, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Barbara Anne "Bobbi" (née Young; 1945–1991) and Ronald Nyland. At age six, she moved with her family to Chaska, Minnesota. Her parents divorced soon after. At age 13, she moved with her mother and stepfather Glenn Lambrecht, along with her two siblings, Karen and Leif, to rural Aitkin County, where they lived in a house that they had 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. She later re-connected with her half-sister from a previous relationship of her father.〔http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2416451/Wild-author-Cheryl-Strayed-reconnects-half-sister-thanks-book.html accessed 8/10/14〕 In 1986, at age 17, Strayed graduated from McGregor High School in McGregor, Minnesota, where she was a track and cross country runner, cheerleader, and homecoming queen. 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 St. Paul, but by her sophomore year, she transferred to the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, where she received her Bachelor of Arts degree, graduating magna cum laude 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 age 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. Strayed worked as a waitress, youth advocate, political organizer, temporary office employee, and emergency medical technician 〔"Cheryl Strayed." ''Contemporary Authors Online''. Detroit: Gale, 2013.〕 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 she was mentored by writers George Saunders, Arthur Flowers, Mary Gaitskill, and Mary Caponegro. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cheryl Strayed」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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