David Sheff

Renowned journalist David Sheff is the author of Beautiful Boy: A Fathers Journey Through her sons drug addiction, the book has passed the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list list. In it he tells the story of his harrowing struggle to help his son Nic overcome his methamphetamine addiction from their fathers and family point of view. With Beautiful Boy, brings the immediacy of the emotional rollercoaster of a love that seems to help your child. The book is based on Article my SheffAddicted Son, which appeared in The New York Times Magazine. He won a special award for outstanding contribution to the promotion of knowledge dependence by the American Psychological Association, and inspired (and continues to inspire) Hundreds of letters from readers, many of whom suffer from addiction or a loved one. He continues to research and write about this subject and recently helped HBO Addiction Book: Why can not Just Stop. Longwith The New York Times Magazine, Sheff, a Playboy editor, also wrote 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 pioneered interviews with John Lennon and Yoko Ono, nuclear physicist Ted Taylor, Congressman Barney Frank, Steve Jobs, Ansel Adams, Thomas Friedman, the founder of Google, Tom Hanks, Betty performed...