David Sedaris
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David Sedaris was born in Binghamton, New York on December 26, 1956, but he grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. Much of Sedaris' humor is autobiographical and self-deprecating, and it often concerns his family life, his middle class upbringing in the suburbs of North Carolina. He graduated from the näytä lisää Art Institute of Chicago in 1987. He is a popular radio commentator, essayist, and short story writer. He held many part-time and odd jobs before getting a job reading excerpts from his diaries on National Public Radio in 1992. His first collection of essays and short stories, Barrel Fever, was published in 1994. His other works include Naked, Holidays on Ice, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, When You Are Engulfed in Flames, Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary, Theft by Finding: Diaries (1977-2002), and Calypso. Me Talk Pretty One Day won the Thurber Prize for American Humor in 2001. He has also written several plays with his sister Amy Sedaris including Stump the Host, Stitches, and The Little Frieda Mysteries. In 2014 her title, Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls, made The New York Times Best Seller List. (Bowker Author Biography) näytä vähemmän
Image credit: Oliver DelaCruz, November 19, 2005
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David Sedaris Book Set: Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim/Me Talk Pretty One Day (2005) 2 kappaletta
Do I Sound Gay? 2 kappaletta
Innocents Abroad 2 kappaletta
Rooster at the Hitchin' Post 2 kappaletta
Schafft die Ya Ya raus!. Das Beste aus dem Hause Sedaris. Ungekürzte Hörfassungen (2003) 2 kappaletta
Ãlbum de famÃlia 1 kappale
Bitte lächeln! 1 kappale
Themes and Variations - An Essay 1 kappale
©lbum de fam©Ưlia 1 kappale
To Make a Friend, Be a Friend 1 kappale
David Sedaris 4 Book Set: Me Talk Pretty One Day, Naked, Dress Your Family in Corduroy, When you are Engulfed in Flames (2003) 1 kappale
Letting Go 1 kappale
Sedaris David 1 kappale
Farm 1 kappale
satirical book - annual newsletters. 1 kappale
Associated Works
The 50 Funniest American Writers: An Anthology of Humor from Mark Twain to The Onion (2011) — Avustaja — 244 kappaletta
Not So Funny When It Happened: The Best of Travel Humor and Misadventure (2000) — Avustaja — 233 kappaletta
Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present (2007) — Avustaja — 183 kappaletta
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- Virallinen nimi
- Sedaris, David Raymond
- Syntymäaika
- 1956-12-26
- Sukupuoli
- male
- Kansalaisuus
- USA
- Syntymäpaikka
- Johnson City, New York, USA
- Asuinpaikat
- Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
New York, New York, USA
Paris, France
London, England, UK
Rackham, West Sussex, England, UK - Koulutus
- Kent State University
School of the Art Institute of Chicago (BA|1987) - Ammatit
- writer
- Suhteet
- Sedaris, Amy (sister)
Hamrick, Hugh (partner) - Organisaatiot
- New Yorker
NPR - Palkinnot ja kunnianosoitukset
- Honorary Doctorate (Binghamton University, 2008)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (2019)
Terry Southern Prize for Humor (2018)
Thurber Prize for American Humor (2001)
Jonathan Swift Internationaler Literaturpreis für Satire und Humor (2019)
Time Humorist of the Year Award (2001) (näytä kaikki 7)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Medal for Spoken Language (2018) - Agentti
- Steven Barclay Agency
- Lyhyt elämäkerta
- David Raymond Sedaris (born December 26, 1956) is an American humorist, comedian, author, and radio contributor. 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. He is the brother and writing collaborator of actor 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, and his life in France, London, and the English South Downs
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