David Henry Sterry

David Henry Sterry
Born	David Henry Sterry United States
Occupation	Non-fiction writer, actor/comic
Nationality	American
Period	2001–present
Notable work(s)	Chicken: Self-Portrait of a Young Man for Rent (2002)

David Henry Sterry is an American author, actor/comic, and former sex worker.

Biography

Sterry started in show business as a standup comedian in the early 1980s, opening for acts ranging from Milton Berle to Robin Williams to Dana Carvey. As an actor, he appeared on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Sister Sister, and the HBO/CTW show Encyclopedia, where he played characters ranging from George Washington and Napoleon Bonaparte to Leif Erikson and a leech enthusiast.

He wrote the movie script Army Dog for Disney. His one-man show, based on his memoir Chicken, debuted internationally at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Sterry is also an activist, a teacher, and a book doctor. He has taught at Stanford University, the University of New Orleans, the University of Amsterdam, and ran a writing workshop for at-risk teenagers and survivors of the sex industry for the United States Department of Justice in Washington DC in 2005. Sterry co-edited the Soft Skull Press anthology Hos, Hookers, Call Girls and Rant Boys: Professionals Writing on Life, Love, Money and Sex, which was featured on the front page of the Sunday New York Times Book Review on August 23, 2009.

In the 1980s Sterry was "Emcee" at Chippendales Male Strip Club in New York,^[1] which was the subject of Sterry's second memoir, Master of Ceremonies.^[2] He performs his show Sex Worker Literati all over the country. The show consists of people from the sex industry reading and performing their work, and is based on an article which featured him, written by Alex Kuczynski in the New York Times. Sterry is a regular contributor to the Huffington Post.

Chicken

Sterry's 2002 memoir, Chicken: Self-Portrait of a Young Man for Rent, described by The New York Times as a "studiously wild souvenier",^[3] details his experiences as a teenage hustler in 1970s Hollywood.

Features

Sterry has been featured in The New York Times, The Times, The Sunday Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, New York Magazine, Penthouse. Details Magazine, nthWORD, BBC Radio, and NPR's Morning Edition, Weekend Edition and Talk of the Nation. Chicken was published by Judith Regan for HarperCollins in 2002, and by Canongate in the UK in April, 2003, and it has been translated into many languages.

Bibliography

• Satchel Sez: The Wit, Wisdom & World of Leroy "Satchel" Paige (Crown/Random House, 2001)
• Chicken: Self-Portrait of a Young Man for Rent (ReganBooks/HarperCollins, 2002)
• Zelfportret van een Jongenshoer (De Kern Baarn, 2002)
• Gwen Is So Wet and Honeymoon in Five-Minute Erotica (Running Press, 2003)
• Pollo(Astarte, 2004)
• Callboy (Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verla, 2004)
• Mlado Meso (Celeber, 2005)
• Ubinoyka(Red Fish, 2005)
• Putting Your Passion Into Print: Get Your Book Published Successfully! (Workman Publishing, 2005)
• Confessions of a Sex Maniac in San Francisco Noir (Akashic, 2005)
• Unzipped (Canongate Books Ltd, 2005)
• Travis & Freddy's Adventures in Vegas (written under the name Henry Johnson) (Dutton/Penguin, April, 2006)
• Master of Ceremonies: A True Story of Love, Murder, Roller Skates and Chippendales (Grove Atlantic, 2008)
• Un Pollastro a Hollywood (Adelphi, 2008)
• Hos, Hookers, Call-Girls, and Rent Boys: Prostitutes Writing on Life, Love, Work, Sex, and Money (Skull Press, 2009)

References

1. ^ Best of Times, Worst of Times: David Sterry; Sunday Times 2007-09-02
2. ^ Q&A with David Henry Sterry, author of Master of Ceremonies; nerve.com, Retrieved on 2009-03-15
3. ^ Maurer, Daniel; GRILLING THE CHICKEN: Q&A WITH DAVID STERRY, FORMER RENT BOY; blacktable.com 2005-12-01; Retrieved on 2009-03-15

External links

• Chicken Self-Portrait of a Young Man for Rent Amazon
• America in Rehab NPR
• Festival: Path from whore to media whore Sunday Times
• Master of Ceremonies: A True Story of Love, Murder, Roller Skates and Chippendales Amazon
• 60 SECONDS: David Henry Sterry METRO
• Melting Down at Ikea: David Henry Sterry nthWORD
• I Was a Poster Boy for Sex Addicts: David Henry Sterry nthWORD

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