Sarah Hepola

Sarah Hepola is the author of the New York Times bestseller, "Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget." Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, Elle, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, Bloomberg Businessweek, and Texas Monthly, where she is a contributing writer. For many years she ran the personal essays section at Salon. She is working on a second memoir about an ambivalent singlehood.

Sarah can be found at sarahhepola.com.

Charitable Organization: Vogel Alcove

Praise

"Simply extraordinary. Ms. Hepola's electric prose marks her as a flamingo among this genre's geese. She has direct access to the midnight gods of torch songs, neon signs, tap beer at a reasonable price, cigarettes and untrammeled longing. . . . As a form, addiction memoirs are permanently interesting because they're an excuse to crack open a life. Ms. Hepola's book moves to a top shelf in this arena. . . . It's a win-win. She got a better life. We have this book."

―Dwight Garner, The New York Times

"It's hard to think of another memoir that burrows inside an addict's brain like this one does. . . . Her writing lights up the pages, and she infuses the chapters describing her resolute slog toward sobriety with warmth and sprightly humor. [Grade:] A."―Entertainment Weekly

"You don't need to be a reformed problem drinker to appreciate Hepola's gripping memoir about the years she lost to alcohol-and the self she rediscovered once she quit."―People, "Summer's Best Books"

"Brutally funny and alarmingly honest."―Entertainment Weekly, "Must List"

"Hepola unstintingly documents both her addiction's giddy pleasures and its grim tolls. Her account will leave you breathless-and impressed."―People, "Smart New Memoirs"