David Sedaris

David Sedaris is an American humorist, comedian, and radio contributor whose essays draw on his family, his Greek heritage, and his years in France and England. His first collection, Barrel Fever, appeared in 1994, and Me Talk Pretty One Day won the Thurber Prize for American Humor in 2000. He is known for the essay "Santaland Diaries," which NPR broadcast in 1992, and he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2019.