Jared Klickstein

About The Author

Jared Klickstein was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1989 to heroin-addicted parents. He spent his teenage years outside of Oakland, California after being adopted by his aunt and uncle. He attended UC Santa Cruz where he got addicted to heroin himself, dropped out, and spent nearly ten years chronically homeless and addicted around the country. After a notorious run on Skid Row in Los Angeles and a subsequent jail sentence, he sobered up in 2018, wrote this book, and currently resides in Oakland, California. He works as an independent journalist.

Books by Jared Klickstein

Crooked Smile

What It Took to Escape a Decade of Homelessness, Addiction, & Crime

By Jared Klickstein
Foreword by Michael Shellenberger
Featured In the Wall Street Journal
As Seen on Jesse Watters
As Heard on the Patrick Bet-David Podcast

Crooked Smile details one man’s journey that left him homeless on Skid Row, and what it took to escape a decade of addiction.
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