Author Cheryl Strayed Announces Husband Brian Lindstrom’s Death

Author Cheryl Strayed announced that her husband, filmmaker Brian Lindstrom, died on Friday at age 65. He had been diagnosed with a serious, fatal illness on May 1. Strayed posted the news via Instagram, stating that the family held him as he took his last breath.

“Brian Lindstrom died this morning the way he lived—with gentleness and courage, grace and gratitude for his beautiful life. Our children, Carver and Bobbi, and I held him as he took his last breath and we will hold him forever in our hearts,” she wrote. The “Wild” author revealed that Lindstrom had lost his battle to progressive supranuclear palsy.

Strayed, 57, described their more than 30 years together. “What tremendous luck it was to be his partner for more than thirty years. We loved each other and our kids with deep devotion and true delight.

He was a stellar husband,” she continued. She added that he was “the most magnificent dad” to their 21-year-old daughter Bobbi and 20-year-old son Carver. She characterized Lindstrom as a man whose every word and deed was driven by kindness, compassion, and generosity.

“He saw the goodness in everyone. He believed that we are all sacred and redeemable,” Strayed wrote. ” “He erased that X with his camera and his astonishing heart. He made films about incarcerated moms and their kids, about people with mental illness and substance use disorders, about teens living in homeless shelters, foster care, and detention centers, about people who were at the bottom and trying to climb up,” she stated.

” “Their extraordinary grace, courage, and fortitude during this harrowing time was unfaltering and grounded in the undying love Brian poured into them every day of their lives,” she wrote. Strayed concluded, “We do not know how we will live without him. We’re utterly bereft.