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David Sedaris


Born
in Johnson City, New York, The United States
December 26, 1956

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David Raymond Sedaris is an American humorist, comedian, author, and radio contributor. He was publicly recognized in 1992 when National Public Radio broadcast his essay "Santaland Diaries". He published his first collection of essays and short stories, Barrel Fever, in 1994. His next book, Naked (1997), became his first of a series of New York Times Bestsellers, and his 2000 collection Me Talk Pretty One Day won the Thurber Prize for American Humor.
Much of Sedaris's humor is autobiographical and self-deprecating and often concerns his family life, his middle-class upbringing in the suburbs of Raleigh, North Carolina, his Greek heritage, homosexuality, jobs, education, drug use, and obsessive behaviors, as well as his life in France, London
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It Must Be Christmastime. David Sedaris Reads 'Santaland Diaries'

Think you're stressed out during the holidays? Try being one of Santa's little helpers.


Way before social distancing was a thing, writer and humorist David Sedaris worked as a department store elf. And it turns out, being surrounded by tinsel and merriment isn't all it's cracked up to be.


Sedaris wrote about the downside of joy in Santaland Diaries, a collection of stories based on his experiences.

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Me Talk Pretty One Day

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Dress Your Family in Cordur...

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Naked

4.10 avg rating — 273,168 ratings — published 1997 — 11 editions
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Calypso

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Let's Explore Diabetes with...

3.85 avg rating — 151,075 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions
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Holidays on Ice

3.88 avg rating — 131,523 ratings — published 1997 — 48 editions
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Happy-Go-Lucky

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Quotes by David Sedaris  (?)
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“If you're looking for sympathy you'll find it between shit and syphilis in the dictionary.”
David Sedaris, Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays

“Sometimes the sins you haven't committed are all you have left to hold onto.”
David Sedaris, When You Are Engulfed in Flames

“Everyone looks retarded once you set your mind to it.”
David Sedaris

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