David Sedaris
Autor(a) de Me Talk Pretty One Day
About the Author
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 mostrar mais 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) mostrar menos
Image credit: Oliver DelaCruz, November 19, 2005
Séries
Obras de David Sedaris
David Sedaris Book Set: Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim/Me Talk Pretty One Day (2005) 2 cópias
Do I Sound Gay? 2 cópias
Innocents Abroad 2 cópias
Rooster at the Hitchin' Post 2 cópias
Ãlbum de famÃlia 1 exemplar(es)
Naked (Edition unknown) by David Sedaris [Paperback(1998£©] 1 exemplar(es)
As Syzitisoume Gia to Diaviti me Koukouvagies (Let's Explore Diabetes With Owls) (2014) 1 exemplar(es)
Naked (Edition unknown) by David Sedaris [Paperback(1998£©] 1 exemplar(es)
Bitte lächeln! 1 exemplar(es)
Themes and Variations - An Essay 1 exemplar(es)
©lbum de fam©Ưlia 1 exemplar(es)
To Make a Friend, Be a Friend 1 exemplar(es)
David Sedaris 4 Book Set: Me Talk Pretty One Day, Naked, Dress Your Family in Corduroy, When you are Engulfed in Flames (2003) 1 exemplar(es)
David Sedaris Novel Collection 4 Book Set 1 exemplar(es)
Letting Go 1 exemplar(es)
Sedaris David 1 exemplar(es)
Farm 1 exemplar(es)
satirical book - annual newsletters. 1 exemplar(es)
Associated Works
The 50 Funniest American Writers: An Anthology of Humor from Mark Twain to The Onion (2011) — Contribuinte — 244 cópias
Not So Funny When It Happened: The Best of Travel Humor and Misadventure (2000) — Contribuinte — 233 cópias
Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present (2007) — Contribuinte — 183 cópias
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome de batismo
- Sedaris, David Raymond
- Data de nascimento
- 1956-12-26
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Johnson City, New York, USA
- Locais de residência
- Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
New York, New York, USA
Paris, France
London, England, UK
Rackham, West Sussex, England, UK - Educação
- Kent State University
School of the Art Institute of Chicago (BA|1987) - Ocupação
- writer
- Relacionamentos
- Sedaris, Amy (sister)
Hamrick, Hugh (partner) - Organizações
- New Yorker
NPR - Premiações
- 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) (mostrar todas 7)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Medal for Spoken Language (2018) - Agente
- Steven Barclay Agency
- Pequena biografia
- 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
Membros
Resenhas
Listas
Five star books (1)
Best Satire (6)
Phoebe Bridgers (1)
100 New Classics (1)
Big tags (1)
French Books (1)
Best Beach Reads (1)
Read (1)
2000s decade (1)
Christmas Books (1)
1990s (2)
Unread books (3)
To Read (3)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 64
- Also by
- 26
- Membros
- 84,230
- Popularidade
- #133
- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Resenhas
- 1,830
- ISBNs
- 458
- Idiomas
- 21
- Favorito
- 582