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Born | Palo Alto, California, U.S. |
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Genre | Fiction, Non-fiction |
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Spouse | William Powers |
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Martha Sherrill is an American journalist, non-fiction writer, and novelist. [1] She is the author of Dog Man: An Uncommon Life on a Faraway Mountain. [2] [3] [4]
Born in Palo Alto, California, Sherrill grew up in Glendale, California and graduated from UCLA with a degree in art history. She later moved to Washington, DC where she became a staffer at The Washington Post [5] and a contributing editor at Esquire Magazine. One of her most notable pieces for Esquire was the 1996 article "Dream Girl", a hoax profile of a supposed up-and-coming "It Girl"/movie star named Allegra Coleman. Sherrill later used the article as the basis for her first novel, My Last Movie Star (2003).
The Atlantic highlighted Sherrill's Esquire Classic podcast feature “My Father the Bachelor” as a "Gateway Episode". [6]
Sherrill is married to author William Powers and has a son. [7]
Allegra Coleman was a fictional celebrity invented by writer Martha Sherrill for the purposes of a hoax magazine article. Ali Larter portrayed the imaginary actress in Sherrill's feature, "Dream Girl," which appeared in Esquire.
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