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

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David Henry Sterry
Born	David Henry Sterry United States
Occupation	Writer, actor/comic, activist
Period	1983–present
Notable works	Chicken: Self-Portrait of a Young Man for Rent (2002), Hos, Hookers, Call Girls & Rent Boys (2009), The Essential Guide to Getting Your Book Published, co-authored with his wife, Arielle Eckstut.
Spouse	Arielle Eckstut

Biography

Early life

Sterry's parents were immigrants from Newcastle, England.^{[citation needed]} He grew up in New Jersey; Birmingham, Alabama; Virginia, Minnesota; and Dallas, Texas.^{[citation needed]} He attended boarding school at Darrow School in New Lebanon, NY, went to Immaculate Heart College in Hollywood for one year, where he also was employed as sex worker.^{[citation needed]} This became the subject of his first memoir, Chicken: Self-Portrait of a Young Man for Rent. He then transferred to Reed College, where he studied existentialism and poetry, and graduated in 1978.^{[citation needed]} At 21, was offered a professional soccer contract.^{[citation needed]}

Career

He started in show business as a stand-up comedian and improviser in the San Francisco during the early 1980s.^{[citation needed]} He also began to act in small productions.^{[citation needed]} In 1984, he moved to New York, where he appeared in commercials for McDonald's, AT&T, and Levi's, eventually becoming the spokesman for Publisher's Clearing House.^{[citation needed]} He also performed in many Off-Off Broadway plays.^{[citation needed]} In 1985 he was hired to be the master of ceremonies at Chippendales.^{[citation needed]} Nick de Noia, the creator of the show, was assassinated while Sterry was working for him.^{[citation needed]} This would become the subject of his second memoir, Master of Ceremonies: A True Story of Love, Murder, Roller Skates & Chippendales.[1] He had a role in the film Memoirs of an Invisible Man. He appeared in a pilot for Eddie Murphy's production company. It starred Margaret Cho, and was not picked up by ABC.^{[citation needed]} This led to^{[citation needed]} a string of guest starring roles in black sitcoms like The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Sister Sister and Roc. He became a regular on the HBO/CTW show Encyclopedia, where he played characters ranging from George Washington to Napoleon Bonaparte to Leif Erikson.

He began writing books in 2001, with the publication of Satchel Sez: The World, Wit & Wisdom of Leroy Sawtchel Paige (Random House). His next book, the 2002 memoir, Chicken: Self-Portrait of a Young Man for Rent.[2] details his experiences as a teenage hustler in 1970s Hollywood.

Sterry 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.^{[citation needed]}

He performs in a show titled Sex Worker Literati, which consists of people from the sex industry reading and performing original works.[3] Sterry is a regular contributor to the Huffington Post[4] and NPR[5][6]

With the publication of The Essential Guide to Getting Your Book Published (Workman, 2010), he co-founded the company The Book Doctors, and developed a show called Pitchapalooza, where writers get one minute to pitch their books ideas to a panel of publishing experts.[7][8]

Bibliography

• Satchel Sez: The Wit, Wisdom & World of Leroy "Satchel" Paige (with Arielle Eckstut)(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! (with Arielle Eckstut)(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 (with RJ Martin, Jr.)(Skull Press, 2009)
• The Glorious World Cup: A Fanatic's Guide (PAL, Penguin, 2010)
• The Essential Guide to Getting Your Book Published (with Arielle Eckstut)(Workman, 2010)
• Confessions of a Sex Maniac (Kismet, 2011)
• The Hobbyist (written as King Starr)(Battered Suitcase Press, 2013)
• Mort Morte (Vagabondage Press, 2013)
• What Are They Thinking? (with Arielle Eckstut, Dr. Aaron White, & Dr. Scott Swartzwelder, Norton, 2013)
• Johns, Marks, Tricks & Chickenhawks: Professionals & Their Clients Writing About Each Other (with RJ Martin, Jr.)(Soft Skull, 2013)
• Chicken: Self-Portrait of a Young Man for Rent, 10 Year Anniversary Edition (Soft Skull, 2013)

References

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
• Confessions of a Sex Maniac, 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
• Penonfire.blogspot.com
• Therumpus.net
• Publishersweekly.com
• Nerve.com
• Nypress.com
• Articles.sfgate.com
• Salon.com

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