David Sedaris is an American humorist and writer, born in New York in 1956. He attended college sporadically, graduating from the Art Institute of Chicago. Sedaris writes autobiographical stories, often featuring his family and personal experiences. He has published numerous books and is a regular contributor to The New Yorker. Sedaris has also collaborated with his sister, Amy Sedaris, on writing projects and is known for his anti-smoking campaign. He currently lives in France with his partner, Hugh.
American humorist David Sedaris was born in Binghamton, New York on December 26, 1956. Although he had a rocky start to his career as a writer and artist, David Sedaris is now an internationally known author and radio contributor. He attended college in fits and starts, dropping out of Kent State University in 1977 and graduating ten years later from the Art Institute of Chicago. Sedaris writes wickedly funny and self-deprecating accounts of those years in his teens and twenties.
Her humorous stories also often involve information about her family members and childhood experiences. David Sedaris is the brother of Amy Sedaris, an actress, comedian and writer. The brothers collaborated on some writing projects, including the play The Book of Liz. Amy Sedaris was the initiator of the TV show Strangers with Candy which was also made into a feature film. Amy Sedaris has also published books on her own and with other writing partners, including I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence (2006).
According to his books, David Sedaris suffered from Tourette’s syndrome and OCD as a young man. In his book Naked (1996), he claims that many of his nervous habits abated when he started smoking in college. Although David Sedaris quit smoking in early 2007, he has angered anti-smoking campaign officials for years with his anti-smoking campaign. In a speech in Pittsburgh in 1999, Sedaris mocked an anti-smoking billboard in which a cigarette was turned, sideways, into a sinister hypodermic needle. In response, the humorist noted that he wished there was, in fact, a way to inject cigarettes into his bloodstream.
David Sedaris has published numerous books and is a regular contributor to The New Yorker magazine. His books and magazine publications are often autobiographical. In addition to his difficult childhood, early adulthood, and family, Sedaris also writes about his gay life, personal drug use, and life with his partner, Hugh. He and his partner currently live in France, although Sedaris makes frequent trips to the United States to attend conferences and promote his books.
In addition to Naked, mentioned above, Sedaris has published the following books: Barrel Fever (1994), Holidays on Ice (1998), Me Talk Pretty One Day (2000), Dress Your Family in Denim and Corduroy (2004) and Children Playing Front to a statue of Hercules (2005).
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