Ocupation: Novelist
Life: b. September 17, 1968
Birthday: September 17
My mother's death put me in touch with my most savage self. As I've grown up and come to terms with her death and accepted it, the pieces of her that I keep don't exist materially.
source: "How Cheryl Strayed Found Her Path". Interview with Jennifer Sky, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 19, 2012.