Two books escaped the flames: she left Dubliners against a tree just north of the California border and carried The Dream of a Common Language, a collection of poems by Adrienne Rich, for the full journey. ON THE trail, Strayed read 13 books-including Lolita and As I Lay Dying-each morning burning the pages she had read to lighten her load. STRAYED HAS an iPhone 5 on which she receives regular calls and texts from both Witherspoon and Winfrey, whom she now considers gal pals.
The final chapters came together in Lake County, Oregon, in a cabin lent to her by cattle ranchers. On occasion, she’d seek refuge in various hotel rooms just to write for a day or two.
In between teaching creative writing and tending to her two small children, she used her kitchen table as a desk. SHE SPENT two and a half years writing Wild. “I don’t want to owe anyone anything,” says Strayed. They jokingly refer to it as “the house that Wild built,” and it’s true. SHE AND her husband of 15 years, filmmaker Brian Lindstrom, live in Portland, Oregon, with their two children, Carver (named for the writer Raymond), 10, and Bobbi (named after Cheryl’s mom), nine, in a 1914 Prairie Craftsman home purchased in 2013. Twenty years after her initial expedition, the 46-year-old author, who is as warm and fiercely honest in person as she is on the page, assesses the landscape. With this month’s film adaptation of her literary blockbuster-written by Nick Hornby, directed by Jean-Marc Vallée, and co-produced by Reese Witherspoon (who stars as Strayed)-her epic journey continues.
The resulting 2012 memoir, Wild, which traces her physical and emotional battles through the Pacific Northwest, landed her on The New York Times bestseller list, where she has been ever since. Despite being a novice backpacker, with no radio, no phone, no credit cards, and very little money, Strayed survived. At the age of 26, devastated by her mother’s untimely death from lung cancer and reeling from her divorce, Cheryl Strayed embarked on a solo, three-month, 1,100-mile hike along the Pacific Crest Trail.
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