David Sedaris

David Sedaris has contributed to The New Yorker since 1995. He is the author of “Barrel Fever” (1994) and “Holidays on Ice” (1997), as well as numerous collections of personal essays: “Naked” (1997), “Me Talk Pretty One Day” (2000), “Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim” (2004), “When You Are Engulfed in Flames” (2008), “Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls” (2013), “Theft by Finding: Diaries (1977-2002)” (2017), “Calypso” (2018), “The Best of Me” (2020), and “A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries (2003-2020)” (2021). In 2005, he edited an anthology of stories, “Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules.” Sedaris and his sister, Amy Sedaris, have collaborated under the name the Talent Family and have written several plays, including “Stump the Host”; “Stitches”; “One Woman Shoe,” which received an Obie Award; “Incident at Cobbler’s Knob”; and “The Book of Liz,” which was published in book form by the Dramatists Play Service. His latest book, “Happy-Go-Lucky,” was published in 2022.

Sedaris made his comic début on NPR’s “Morning Edition,” in 1992, reading his essay “Santaland Diaries.” His original radio pieces can be heard on the show “This American Life” and on BBC Radio 4’s “Meet David Sedaris.” In 2001, he was named Humorist of the Year by Time. He is the recipient of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, the Jonathan Swift International Literature Prize for Satire and Humor, and the Terry Southern Prize for Humor, and has been nominated for five Grammy Awards in the Best Spoken Word Album and Best Comedy Album categories. In 2019, he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters.