The internationally acclaimed author of Wild collects the best of The Rumpus's Dear Sugar advice columns plus never-before-published pieces. Rich with humor and insight—and absolute honesty—this "wise and compassionate" (New York Times Book Review) book is a balm for everything life throws our way. Life can be hard: your lover cheats on you; you lose a family member; you can’t pay the bills—and it can be great: you’ve had the hottest sex of your life; you get that plum job; you muster the courage to write your novel. Sugar—the once-anonymous online columnist at The Rumpus, now revealed as Cheryl Strayed, author of the bestselling memoir Wild—is the person thousands turn to for advice.
The internationally acclaimed author of Wild collects the best of The Rumpus's Dear Sugar advice columns plus never-before-published pieces. Rich with humor and insight—and absolute honesty—this "wise and compassionate" (New York Times Book Review) book is a balm for everything life throws our way. Life can be hard: your lover cheats on you; you lose a family member; you can’t pay the bills—and it can be great: you’ve had the hottest sex of your life; you get that plum job; you muster the courage to write your novel. Sugar—the once-anonymous online columnist at The Rumpus, now revealed as Cheryl Strayed, author of the bestselling memoir Wild—is the person thousands turn to for advice.
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Memoirs of personal resilience and candid advice literature have reached millions of readers through deeply honest personal narratives. Cheryl Strayed gained widespread recognition with her memoir Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, which details her solo trek along the Pacific Crest Trail in 1995 following her mother's death. She further expanded her readership with Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who's Been There, a collected volume of empathetic advice essays originally written for the online magazine The Rumpus under the pseudonym Dear Sugar.
Born Cheryl Nyland in 1968 in Spangler, Pennsylvania, and raised in Minnesota, Strayed worked as a political organizer for women's advocacy groups before establishing her career as a writer. She published short stories and award-winning creative nonfiction in numerous magazines and literary journals, including The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post Magazine, Vogue, The Rumpus, Self, The Missouri Review, Allure, Elle, Nerve, and The Sun. Her essays were included in the Pushcart Prize anthology and twice selected for The Best American Essays, while Joyce Carol Oates chose her work for the opening piece in The Best New American Voices 2003.
Strayed made her book debut with Torch, a 2006 novel that was named a finalist for the Great Lakes Book Award and selected by The Oregonian as one of the top ten books of 2006 by Pacific Northwest authors. Her 2012 memoir Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail became an international bestseller, selling millions of copies worldwide in forty languages, and was adapted into an Academy Award-nominated 2014 feature film. In addition to her books, Strayed has worked as a podcast host and public speaker, residing in Portland, Oregon.
Strayed's writing is characterized by radical candor, emotional vulnerability, and an exploration of grief, self-discovery, and forgiveness. Her non-fiction frequently addresses intimate personal crises—such as the loss of her mother, marital dissolution, and personal reckonings—converting private pain into universal observations on compassion and endurance. Through both her narrative memoir and her Dear Sugar advice columns, she combines conversational intimacy with precise prose, offering readers direct wisdom paired with deep empathy.
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Memoirs of personal resilience and candid advice literature have reached millions of readers through deeply honest personal narratives. Cheryl Strayed gained widespread recognition with her memoir Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, which details her solo trek along the Pacific Crest Trail in 1995 following her mother's death. She further expanded her readership with Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who's Been There, a collected volume of empathetic advice essays originally written for the online magazine The Rumpus under the pseudonym Dear Sugar.
Born Cheryl Nyland in 1968 in Spangler, Pennsylvania, and raised in Minnesota, Strayed worked as a political organizer for women's advocacy groups before establishing her career as a writer. She published short stories and award-winning creative nonfiction in numerous magazines and literary journals, including The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post Magazine, Vogue, The Rumpus, Self, The Missouri Review, Allure, Elle, Nerve, and The Sun. Her essays were included in the Pushcart Prize anthology and twice selected for The Best American Essays, while Joyce Carol Oates chose her work for the opening piece in The Best New American Voices 2003.
Strayed made her book debut with Torch, a 2006 novel that was named a finalist for the Great Lakes Book Award and selected by The Oregonian as one of the top ten books of 2006 by Pacific Northwest authors. Her 2012 memoir Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail became an international bestseller, selling millions of copies worldwide in forty languages, and was adapted into an Academy Award-nominated 2014 feature film. In addition to her books, Strayed has worked as a podcast host and public speaker, residing in Portland, Oregon.
Strayed's writing is characterized by radical candor, emotional vulnerability, and an exploration of grief, self-discovery, and forgiveness. Her non-fiction frequently addresses intimate personal crises—such as the loss of her mother, marital dissolution, and personal reckonings—converting private pain into universal observations on compassion and endurance. Through both her narrative memoir and her Dear Sugar advice columns, she combines conversational intimacy with precise prose, offering readers direct wisdom paired with deep empathy.
