About David Sedaris

David Sedaris is one of America’s preeminent humor writers. He is a master of satire and one of today’s most observant writers. Beloved for his personal essays and short stories, Sedaris is the author of The New York Times bestsellers Barrel Fever, Holidays on Ice, Naked, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, When You Are Engulfed in Flames, Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls, Calypso, and Happy-Go-Lucky. Sedaris has also written six plays, the children’s book Pretty Ugly, a collection of fables titled Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary, and two bestselling volumes of his diaries: Theft By Finding: Diaries (1977–2002) and A Carnival of Snackery, Diaries (2003–2020). His pieces regularly appear in The New Yorker and have twice been included in The Best American Essays. Sedaris has five Grammy nominations for Best Spoken Word and Best Comedy Album. There are more than 16 million copies of his books in print, and they have been translated into 32 languages. In 2019, he was elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 2020, the New York Public Library voted Me Talk Pretty One Day one of the 125 most important books of the last 125 years.