Question: Who was born September 17, 1968 and wrote the memoir Wild was based on?

full_context: Document 1: Into the Wild (film): Into the Wild is a 2007 American biographical drama survival film written, co-produced, and directed by Sean Penn. It is an adaptation of Jon Krakauer's 1996 non-fiction book of the same name, based on the travels of Christopher McCandless across North America and his life spent in the Alaskan wilderness in the early 1990s. The film stars Emile Hirsch as McCandless, and Marcia Gay Harden and William Hurt as his parents, and features Jena Malone, Catherine Keener, Vince Vaughn, Kristen Stewart, and Hal Holbrook.
Document 2: Wildlife (film): Wildlife is an upcoming American drama directed by Paul Dano and co-written by Dano and Zoe Kazan. It is based on the 1990 novel "Wildlife" by Richard Ford. The film will star Jake Gyllenhaal, Carey Mulligan, Ed Oxenbould, and Zoe Margaret Colletti, and will mark Dano's debut as a director.
Document 3: The Glass Castle (film): The Glass Castle is a 2017 American biographical drama film directed by Destin Daniel Cretton and written by Cretton, Andrew Lanham, and Marti Noxon, based on Jeannette Walls's 2005 memoir of the same name. Depicting Walls's real-life childhood spent squatting in homes and living in poverty, the film stars Brie Larson as Walls with Naomi Watts, Woody Harrelson, Max Greenfield, and Sarah Snook in supporting roles. The film was released on August 11, 2017, by Lionsgate and received mixed reviews from critics, who praised the performances of its cast (particularly Larson and Harrelson) but criticized the mishandled tones and material.
Document 4: Rabia Chaudry: Rabia Chaudry is an attorney and the author of "Adnan’s Story: The Search for Truth and Justice After Serial" (St. Martin Press, September 2016), a book about the criminal case of her friend Adnan Syed, who was also featured in the podcast "Serial". Chaudry was the first person to take the Syed's case to "Serial" producer and host Sarah Koenig. Molly Fitzgerald writes in "Bustle" that the book "picks up where ‘Serial’ left off," describing evidence not included in the "Serial" podcast including letters he wrote to his family early in his imprisonment. "Adnan's Story" became a "New York Times" best-seller and one of Audible's 10 most popular audio books of 2016. Chaudry also has a podcast, "Undisclosed" with Susan Simpson and Colin Miller, that looks at evidence in Syed's case and others.
Document 5: All the Wilderness: All the Wilderness is a 2014 American drama film written and directed by Michael Johnson. The film stars Kodi Smit-McPhee, Isabelle Fuhrman, Danny DeVito, Virginia Madsen and Evan Ross. The film was released on February 20, 2015, by Screen Media Films.
Document 6: Wild (2014 film): Wild is a 2014 American biographical survival drama film directed by Jean-Marc Vallée. The screenplay by Nick Hornby is based on Cheryl Strayed's 2012 memoir "". The film stars Reese Witherspoon as Strayed, alongside Laura Dern (as Strayed's mother), with Thomas Sadoski, Michiel Huisman and Gaby Hoffmann among several others in supporting roles. The film premiered at the Telluride Film Festival on August 29, 2014, and was released theatrically on December 3, 2014, in North America.
Document 7: Torch (book): Torch is the debut novel of American author Cheryl Strayed. Published in 2006 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, the book was a finalist for the Great Lakes Book Award and was selected by "The Oregonian" as one of the top ten books of 2006 by writers living in the Pacific Northwest. The book presents the story of family crisis and grief through the failing health and subsequent death of a mother of two children in Minnesota. The book is loosely based on the real life of the author.
Document 8: Tiny Beautiful Things: Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar is a book written by the American author Cheryl Strayed. The book was published by Vintage Books, a division of Random House Publishing, on July 10, 2012, and debuted at No. 5 on the "New York Times Best Seller list" in the advice and self-help category. "Tiny Beautiful Things" is a collection of essays compiled from Strayed's "Dear Sugar" advice column, which she wrote anonymously, on "The Rumpus" online literary magazine.
Document 9: Elizabeth Strout: Elizabeth Strout (born January 6, 1956) is an American novelist and author. She is widely known for her works in literary fiction and her descriptive characterization. Born and raised in Portland, Maine, her experiences in her youth served as inspiration for the themes, motifs, and plot lines in her novels–the fictional "Shirley Falls, Maine" has served as the setting of four of her six novels. After attending Bates College in Lewiston, and Syracuse University in Syracuse, she waitressed before writing her first novel, "Amy and Isabelle" (1998). Her debut was met with widespread critical acclaim, became a national bestseller, and was adapted into a movie starring Elisabeth Shue.
Document 10: Julie Hayden: Julie Hayden (1938/39 — September 14, 1981) was an American short story writer and staff member at "The New Yorker" magazine. In 1976, Viking Press published her only collection of short stories, "The Lists of the Past". "Day-Old Baby Rats" is one of her famous stories, which was chosen and read in 2010 by writer Lorrie Moore on "The New Yorker" podcast with fiction editor Deborah Treisman. Hayden's story collection was selected by bestselling author Cheryl Strayed for republication with Pharos Editions out of Seattle, and was published in May 2014.
Document 11: Laura Dern: Laura Elizabeth Dern (born February 10, 1967) is an American actress. For her performance in the 1991 film "Rambling Rose", she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, while for her performance in the 2014 film "Wild", she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her other film roles include "Mask" (1985), "Smooth Talk" (1985), "Blue Velvet" (1986), "Wild at Heart" (1990), "Jurassic Park" (1993), "Citizen Ruth" (1996), "October Sky" (1999), "I Am Sam" (2001), "Inland Empire" (2006), "The Master" (2012), "The Fault in Our Stars" (2014), and "" (2017). She is known for her collaborations with filmmaker David Lynch, having appeared in four of his films and the 2017 "Twin Peaks" revival.
Document 12: The River Wild: The River Wild is a 1994 American adventure crime-thriller film directed by Curtis Hanson and starring Meryl Streep, Kevin Bacon, David Strathairn, John C. Reilly, Benjamin Bratt, and Joseph Mazzello as Roarke. The film is about a family on a whitewater rafting trip who encounter two violent criminals in the wilderness.
Document 13: Cheryl Strayed: Cheryl Strayed ( ; née Nyland; born September 17, 1968) is an American memoirist, novelist, essayist and podcast host. The author of four books, her award-winning writing has been published widely in national magazines and anthologies.
Document 14: A Cry in the Wild: A Cry in the Wild is a 1990 coming of age-survival drama film based on the book "Hatchet", written by Gary Paulsen. The film stars Jared Rushton as Brian, Pamela Sue Martin as Brian's mom, Stephen Meadows as Brian's dad, and Ned Beatty as the pilot. It spawned three sequels: ""; ""; and "".
Document 15: Alice Sebold: Alice Sebold (born September 6, 1963) is an American writer. She has published three books: "Lucky" (1999), "The Lovely Bones" (2002), and "The Almost Moon" (2007).
ground_truth: Cheryl Strayed