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Sharon DeGenaro
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*Co-sponsored by the Abraham Ribicoff Research Facilities at CMHC and the Poynter Fellowship in Journalism at Yale University
About David Sheff
Freelance journalist David Sheff is the author of Clean: Overcoming Addiction and Ending America’s Greatest Tragedy, the follow-up to his New York Times #1 best seller, Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction. Clean is the result of the years Sheff spent investigating the disease of addiction and America’s drug problem, which he sees as the greatest public health challenge of our time. Beautiful Boy, published in 2008, based on his New York Times Magazine article, “My Addicted Son,” won a special award from the American Psychological Association for “outstanding contribution to the understanding of addiction.” It was named the year’s Best Nonfiction Book by Entertainment Weekly and won first place in the Barnes and Noble Discover Award in nonfiction. Sheff also contributed to HBO’s Addiction: Why Can’t They Just Stop. In 2009, he was named to the Time 100, Time Magazine’s list of the World’s Most Influential People. He won the 2013 College of Problems on Drug Dependence (CPDD) Media Award. Along with The New York Times Magazine, Sheff has written for Playboy, The New York Times, Wired, Rolling Stone, Outside, The Los Angeles Times Magazine, Esquire and Observer Magazine in England, Foreign Literature in Russia, and Playboy (Shueisha) in Japan. Sheff graduated from the University of California, Berkeley. He lives with his family in Northern California.