Author Archives: David Henry Sterry

About David Henry Sterry

David Henry Sterry is the author of 16 books, a performer, muckraker, educator, activist, and book doctor. His international bestselling memoir Chicken Self:-Portrait of a Man for Rent, is being celebrated in a 10 Year Anniversary Edition. "Ten years ago, this debut memoir from Sterry burst upon the literary scene with an energy and inventiveness that captured his teenage life in Los Angeles as a rent boy. His memoir still crackles with its unsparingly honest approach." - Publisher’s Weekly He's also written Hos, Hookers, Call Girls and Rent Boys: Professionals Writing on Life, Love, Money and Sex, which appeared on the front cover of the Sunday New York Times Book Review. He is a finalist for the Henry Miller Award. He has appeared on, acted with, written for, been employed as, worked and/or presented at: Will Smith, a marriage counselor, Disney screenwriter, Stanford University, National Public Radio, Milton Berle, Huffington Post, a sodajerk, Michael Caine, the Taco Bell chihuahua, Penthouse, The London Times, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, a human guinea pig and Zippy the Chimp.