David Sheff

DAVID SHEFF's work has appeared in the New York Times, Outside, Rolling Stone, Wired, Fortune, and elsewhere. His piece for the New York Times Magazine, "My Addicted Son," generated several hundred letters from readers and won an award from the American Psychological Association for "Outstanding Contribution to Advancing the Understanding of Addiction."

Sheff has been an editor of New West and California magazines and was a founding editor of Men’s Life and Yahoo Internet Life.

He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley.

Sheff lives in Northern California with his wife, Karen Barbour, an artist, illustrator, and author of children’s books. He has three children, Nic, Jasper, and Daisy Sheff.