Overview
- Cheryl Strayed said on Friday that her husband, Brian Lindstrom, died that morning from progressive supranuclear palsy, and she and their children were with him.
- Progressive supranuclear palsy is a rare brain disease that damages cells controlling movement and thinking, and it often advances quickly.
- Lindstrom’s work included Alien Boy: The Life and Death of James Chasse (2013) and Lost Angel: The Genius of Judee Sill (2022), plus a short co-directed with Strayed, We Are Forbidden.
- His 2015 film Mothering Inside helped spur restored funding for Oregon’s Family Preservation Project and supported a state bill of rights for children of incarcerated parents, and he received an ACLU of Oregon civil liberties award.
- Strayed had disclosed a serious, fatal diagnosis weeks earlier and canceled events to be with family, and she described their children, Carver and Bobbi, as his greatest legacy.