An author as widely read as Cheryl Strayed needs no introduction to our book-lovers, but it doesn't hurt to give one. She is the author of the No. 1 New York Times bestselling memoir Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, the New York Times bestsellers Tiny Beautiful Things and Brave Enough, and the novel Torch. Readers and moviegoers alike will know Wild for its Oscar-nominated movie adaptation starring Reese Witherspoon as Cheryl and Laura Dern as Cheryl's mother, Bobbi, which follows Strayed as she explores the terrain of loss and self-acceptance on a solo, three-month, 1,100-mile hike along the Pacific Crest Trail. An early favorite of Oprah Winfrey's, Strayed is also best known for her brand of radical empathy as advice-giver extraordinaire Sugar, which has seen her become the host of the New York Times hit podcast Sugar Calling as well as Dear Sugars, which she cohosted with Steve Almond.
- 5/21/2021
- by Chris Roney
- Popsugar.com
Exclusive: In a competitive situation, Sony Pictures Television has optioned Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natasha Trethewey’s bestselling book Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir, for development as a drama series. A search for a writer is underway.
The book, published by HarperCollins in July, is described as a chillingly personal and exquisitely wrought memoir of a daughter reckoning with the brutal murder of her mother at the hands of her former stepfather, and the moving, intimate story of a poet coming into her own in the wake of a tragedy.
The memoir was an instant New York Time bestseller. It also was named a New York Times 2020 Notable Book and was named among the Ten Best Books of 2020 by both Time and The Washington Post. It is also a finalist for the 2021 Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, and is an NPR and Shelf Awareneness Best Book of the Year.
The book, published by HarperCollins in July, is described as a chillingly personal and exquisitely wrought memoir of a daughter reckoning with the brutal murder of her mother at the hands of her former stepfather, and the moving, intimate story of a poet coming into her own in the wake of a tragedy.
The memoir was an instant New York Time bestseller. It also was named a New York Times 2020 Notable Book and was named among the Ten Best Books of 2020 by both Time and The Washington Post. It is also a finalist for the 2021 Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, and is an NPR and Shelf Awareneness Best Book of the Year.
- 12/2/2020
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
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