1. David Raymond Sedaris is an American humorist, comedian, author, and radio contributor.
28 Facts About David Sedaris
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David Sedaris was publicly recognized in 1992 when National Public Radio broadcast his essay "Santaland Diaries".
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David Sedaris published his first collection of essays and short stories, Barrel Fever, in 1994.
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David Sedaris is the brother and writing collaborator of actress Amy Sedaris.
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In 2019, David Sedaris was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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David Sedaris's father was born in the US to immigrants from Apidea in Laconia, Greece.
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David Sedaris's mother was Protestant, and his father was Greek Orthodox, the faith in which David was raised.
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The Sedaris family moved when David was young, and he grew up in a suburban area of Raleigh, the second oldest child of six.
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Tiffany died by suicide in 2013, a subject David Sedaris discusses in the essay "Now We Are Five", which was published in The New Yorker and included in his 2018 essay collection Calypso.
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David Sedaris describes his lack of success in several of his essays.
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David Sedaris moved to Chicago in 1983, and graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1987.
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David Sedaris was reading a diary he had kept since 1977.
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In 1994, David Sedaris published Barrel Fever, a collection of stories and essays.
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David Sedaris began writing essays for Esquire and The New Yorker.
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Wang had completed the script and begun casting when David Sedaris asked to "get out of it," after he and his sister worried how their family might be portrayed.
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In 2004, David Sedaris published Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, which reached number 1 on The New York Times Nonfiction Best Seller List in June of that year.
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The audiobook of Dress Your Family, read by David Sedaris, was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album.
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In September 2007, a new David Sedaris collection was announced for publication the following year.
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The collection's working title was All the Beauty You Will Ever Need, but David Sedaris retitled it Indefinite Leave to Remain and finally settled on the title When You Are Engulfed in Flames.
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In December 2008, David Sedaris received an honorary doctorate from Binghamton University.
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David Sedaris appeared along with his sister Amy as special guest judges on season 8, episode 8, of RuPaul's Drag Race.
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David Sedaris appeared as a guest in the Adult Swim television series FishCenter Live.
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David Sedaris guest starred on the Netflix animated comedy-drama series BoJack Horseman as the mother of Princess Carolyn, voiced by Amy David Sedaris.
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In 2019, David Sedaris was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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Several published responses to Heard's article argued that David Sedaris's readers are aware that his descriptions and stories are intentionally exaggerated and manipulated to maximize comic effect, while others used the controversy as a springboard for discussing the liberties publishers are willing to take when calling books "nonfiction".
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David Sedaris has written several plays with his sister, actress Amy David Sedaris, under the name "The Talent Family".
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David Sedaris has contributed over 40 essays to The New Yorker magazine and blog.
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David Sedaris is known for regularly spending hours removing litter from roads and highways near Rackham.