With sardonic wit and incisive social critiques, David Sedaris has become one of America’s pre-eminent humor writers. The great skill with which he slices through cultural euphemisms and political correctness proves that Sedaris is a master of satire and one of the most observant writers addressing the human condition today.

David Sedaris is the author of Barrel Fever and Holidays on Ice, as well as collections of personal essays, 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, The Best of Me, Calypso and Happy-Go-Lucky each of which became an immediate bestseller. He is the author of the NYT-bestselling collection of fables entitled Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary as well as the children’s book Pretty Ugly, both illustrated by Ian Falconer.  A new children’s book, The Selfish Sister, illustrated by Bob Staake, will be published in March 2026.  David Sedaris’ collections of his diaries, entitled Theft By Finding, Diaries (1977-2002) and A Carnival of Snackery (2003-2020) were also national bestsellers. An art book, about David Sedaris’ diary covers edited by Jeffrey Jenkins, entitled: David Sedaris Diaries: A Visual Compendium was published in 2017. He was also the editor of Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules: An Anthology of Outstanding Stories. Sedaris’ pieces appear regularly in The New Yorker and have twice been included in “The Best American Essays.” There are over 16 million copies of his books in print and they have been translated into 32 languages.

He and his sister, Amy Sedaris, have collaborated under the name “The Talent Family” and have written half-a-dozen plays which have been produced at La Mama, Lincoln Center, and The Drama Department in New York City. These plays include 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 Dramatists Play Service. David Sedaris’ original radio pieces were heard on the public radio show This American Life. David Sedaris’ audiobooks have been nominated for five Grammy Awards for Best Spoken Word and Best Comedy Album. His audio recordings of  stories (recorded live) are “David Sedaris: Live for Your Listening Pleasure” and “David Sedaris: Live at Carnegie Hall”. The audio of Happy-Go-Lucky won the 2023 Audie Award. A feature film adaptation of his story C.O.G. was released after a premiere at the Sundance Film Festival (2013). Since 2011, he can be heard annually on a series of live recordings on BBC Radio 4 entitled “Meet David Sedaris” and regularly appears on CBS Sunday Morning. In 2019 he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters and Masterclass released a series of videos David Sedaris Teaches Storytelling and Humor.

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“Sedaris ain’t the preeminent humorist of his generation by accident”
—Whitney Pastorek, Entertainment Weekly

“Sedaris has hit upon the narrative equivalent of Pepsi, or the PlayStation, or oxygen, or the haircut: something that others in the world might actually want and find useful. . . He’s smart, he’s caustic, he’s mordant, and, somehow, he’s . . . well, nice.”
—Bill Richardson, Toronto Globe and Mail

“Sedaris’s droll assessment of the mundane and the eccentrics who inhabit the world’s crevices make him one of the greatest humorists writing today.”
—Chicago Tribune

“Sedaris belongs on any list of people writing in English at the moment who are revising our ideas about what’s funny.”
—San Francisco Chronicle

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