Solving a Lingering Mystery from Cheryl Strayed's Wild - Vanity Fair
“My little sister’s good friend called her and said, ‘You’re never gonna believe this—there’s this book called Wild and your dad is in it. ’ ” It started out simple, as these things often do. A short scene in Wild , in which Cheryl Strayed (Reese... I first came to Strayed’s story in her memoir Wild , published in 2012. Having lost my father to cancer when I was 23, the story of Strayed’s hike along the Pacific Crest Trail, in the wake of her own mother’s death, moved me. Many of the toughest... In both the film and the book, the reporter wrote down Strayed’s first and last name, snapped a photo of her, gave her a hobo care package containing beer, an individually packaged cigarette, canned beans, and various other items, and told her to... in the fall issue of the Hobo Times. ” In the book, Strayed called the man Jimmy Carter. She looked for him, along with the issue of the Hobo Times in which she might have appeared, while writing Wild , but had no luck at the time. Source: www.vanityfair.com
