UPDATE — 5/15/26, 3:20 p.m. ET: Wild author Cheryl Strayed announced the death of her husband, filmmaker Brian Lindstrom, at age 65, just two weeks after publicly disclosing that he’d been diagnosed with a “fatal illness.”
“Brian Lindstrom died this morning the way he lived—with gentleness and courage, grace and gratitude for his beautiful life,” Strayed, 65, wrote via Instagram on Friday, May 15. “Our children, Carver and Bobbi, and I held him as he took his last breath and we will hold him forever in our heart.”
Strayed initially cancelled a series of public appearances on April 30 amid her...
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