![]() ![]() Sedaris was born in Johnson City, New York to Sharon Elizabeth (née Leonard) and Louis Harry "Lou" Sedaris (1923–2021), an IBM engineer. In 2019, Sedaris was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is the brother and writing collaborator of actress Amy Sedaris. Much of Sedaris's humor is ostensibly autobiographical and self-deprecating and often concerns his family life, his middle-class upbringing in the suburbs of Raleigh, North Carolina, his Greek heritage, homosexuality, jobs, education, drug use, and obsessive behaviors, as well as his life in France, London, New York, and the South Downs in England. His next book, Naked (1997), became his first of a series of New York Times Bestsellers, and his 2000 collection Me Talk Pretty One Day won the Thurber Prize for American Humor. ![]() He was publicly recognized in 1992 when National Public Radio broadcast his essay " Santaland Diaries.” He published his first collection of essays and short stories, Barrel Fever, in 1994. ![]() School of the Art Institute of Chicago ( BA)ĭavid Raymond Sedaris ( / s ɪ ˈ d ɛər ɪ s/ born December 26, 1956) is an American humorist, comedian, author, and radio contributor. ![]()
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