David Henry Sterry

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David Henry Sterry
BornDavid Henry Sterry
(1957-06-02) June 2, 1957 (age 67)
United States
OccupationWriter, actor/comic, activist
Period1983–present
Notable worksChicken: Self-Portrait of a Young Man for Rent (2002), Hos, Hookers, Call Girls & Rent Boys (2009), The Essential Guide to Getting Your Book Published, co-authored with his wife, Arielle Eckstut.
SpouseArielle Eckstut

David Henry Sterry is an American

activist and former sex worker
.

Biography

Early life

Sterry's parents were immigrants from Newcastle, England.[citation needed] He grew up in New Jersey; Birmingham, Alabama; Virginia, Minnesota; and Dallas, Texas.[citation needed] He attended boarding school at Darrow School in New Lebanon, NY, went to Immaculate Heart College in Hollywood for one year, where he also was employed as sex worker.[citation needed] This became the subject of his first memoir, Chicken: Self-Portrait of a Young Man for Rent. He then transferred to Reed College, where he studied existentialism and poetry, and graduated in 1978.[citation needed] At 21, was offered a professional soccer contract.[citation needed]

Career

He started in show business as a stand-up comedian and improviser in the San Francisco during the early 1980s.[

Napoleon Bonaparte to Leif Erikson
.

He began writing books in 2001, with the publication of Satchel Sez: The World, Wit & Wisdom of Leroy Sawtchel Paige (Random House). His next book, the 2002 memoir, Chicken: Self-Portrait of a Young Man for Rent,[2] details his experiences as a teenage hustler in 1970s Hollywood.

Sterry ran a writing workshop for at-risk teenagers and survivors of the sex industry for the United States Department of Justice in Washington DC in 2005.[citation needed]

He performs in a show titled Sex Worker Literati, which consists of people from the sex industry reading and performing original works.

Huffington Post[4] and NPR[5][6]

With the publication of The Essential Guide to Getting Your Book Published (Workman, 2010), he co-founded the company The Book Doctors, and developed a show called Pitchapalooza, where writers get one minute to pitch their books ideas to a panel of publishing experts.[7][8]

Bibliography

  • Satchel Sez: The Wit, Wisdom & World of Leroy "Satchel" Paige (with Arielle Eckstut)(Crown/Random House, 2001)
  • Chicken: Self-Portrait of a Young Man for Rent (ReganBooks/HarperCollins, 2002)
  • Zelfportret van een Jongenshoer (De Kern Baarn, 2002)
  • Gwen Is So Wet and Honeymoon in Five-Minute Erotica (Running Press, 2003)
  • Pollo(Astarte, 2004)
  • Callboy (Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verla, 2004)
  • Mlado Meso (Celeber, 2005)
  • Ubinoyka(Red Fish, 2005)
  • Putting Your Passion Into Print: Get Your Book Published Successfully! (with Arielle Eckstut)(Workman Publishing, 2005)
  • Confessions of a Sex Maniac in San Francisco Noir (Akashic, 2005)
  • Unzipped (Canongate Books Ltd, 2005)
  • Travis & Freddy's Adventures in Vegas (written under the name Henry Johnson) (Dutton/Penguin, April, 2006)
  • Master of Ceremonies: A True Story of Love, Murder, Roller Skates and Chippendales (Grove Atlantic, 2008)
  • Un Pollastro a Hollywood (Adelphi, 2008)
  • Hos, Hookers, Call-Girls, and Rent Boys: Prostitutes Writing on Life, Love, Work, Sex, and Money (with RJ Martin, Jr.)(Skull Press, 2009)
  • The Glorious World Cup: A Fanatic's Guide (PAL, Penguin, 2010)
  • The Essential Guide to Getting Your Book Published (with Arielle Eckstut)(Workman, 2010)
  • Confessions of a Sex Maniac (Kismet, 2011)
  • The Hobbyist (written as King Starr)(Battered Suitcase Press, 2013)
  • Mort Morte (Vagabondage Press, 2013)
  • What Are They Thinking? (with Arielle Eckstut, Dr. Aaron White, & Dr. Scott Swartzwelder, Norton, 2013)
  • Johns, Marks, Tricks & Chickenhawks: Professionals & Their Clients Writing About Each Other (with RJ Martin, Jr.)(Soft Skull, 2013)
  • Chicken: Self-Portrait of a Young Man for Rent, 10 Year Anniversary Edition (Soft Skull, 2013)

References

  1. ^ Q&A with David Henry Sterry, author of Master of Ceremonies; Nerve.com, Retrieved on 2009-03-15
  2. ^ Maurer, Daniel; GRILLING THE CHICKEN: Q&A WITH DAVID STERRY, FORMER RENT BOY Archived 2007-10-18 at the Wayback Machine; Blacktable.com 2005-12-01; Retrieved on 2009-03-15
  3. ^ Kuczynski, Alex (4 November 2001). "The Sex Worker Literati". The New York Times. Retrieved 9 November 2014.
  4. ^ "David Henry Sterry". Huffingtonpost.com. Retrieved 9 November 2014.
  5. ^ "What's Major League Soccer Without Beckham?". NPR.org. Retrieved 9 November 2014.
  6. ^ "Who To Watch (North Korea?!) In The World Cup". NPR.org. Retrieved 9 November 2014.
  7. ^ "Untitled Document". Archived from the original on 2011-10-04. Retrieved 2012-01-07.
  8. ^ "Ben Pitchapalooza". Mylitv.com. Retrieved 9 November 2014.


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