Cheryl Strayed and Lidia Yuknavitch on “Wild” at the 2019 AWP Book Fair

Cheryl Strayed's second book, the 2012 memoir "Wild," won the Barnes & Noble Discover Award and the Oregon Book Award, and will be made into a major film in 2014, starring Reese Witherspoon. Lidia Yuknavitch is an author, editor and teacher; his 2016 TED talk, “The Beauty of Being a Misfit” has been viewed more than 2.6 million times and pawned off his 2017 novel, The Beauty of Being a Misfit. She also founded the Corporeal Writing workshop series in Portland.

Women authors, Biography, biographies, Travel, Pacific Crest Trail, Oprah's Book Club, Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award

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