Cheryl Strayed

American memoirist and essayist — author of Wild and Tiny Beautiful Things — who hiked the Pacific Crest Trail alone in grief after her mother's death and wrote the most widely read hiking memoir — also the anonymous author of the Dear Sugar advice column.

Creates Wild as the definitive American solo hiking memoir — Strayed's account of hiking 1,100 miles of the PCT alone while grieving is the most emotionally honest American hiking memoir and transformed the Pacific Crest Trail into a cultural destination; it is also the model for the grief memoir that uses physical challenge as psychological framework.