David Sheff


Renowned journalist David Sheff is the author of Beautiful Boy: A Fathers Journey through His Sons Addiction, the book that has topped the New York Times non-fiction bestseller list. In it, he tells the story of his harrowing struggle to help his son Nic overcome his methamphetamine addiction from the fathers and familys point of view. Through Beautiful Boy, he brings immediacy to the emotional rollercoaster of loving a child who seems beyond your help. The book is based on Sheffs article My Addicted Son, which appeared in the New York Times Magazine. It won a special award for Outstanding Contribution to Advancing the Understanding of Addictions from the American Psychological Association and inspired (and continues to inspire) hundreds of letters from readers, many of whom are suffering from addiction or the addiction of a loved one. His continues to research and writing about this subject and most recently contributed to the HBO book Addiction: Why Cant They Just Stop. Along with The New York Times Magazine, Sheff, a contributing editor to Playboy, has also written for The New York Times, Wired, Fortune, Rolling Stone, Outside, The Los Angeles Times Magazine, Esquire and Observer Magazine in England, Foreign Literature in Russia, and Playboy (Shueisha) in Japan. He has conducted seminal interviews with John Lennon and Yoko Ono, nuclear physicist Ted Taylor, Congressman Barney Frank, Steve Jobs, Ansel Adams, Thomas Friedman, the founders of Google, Tom Hanks, Betty …