He describes his lack of success in several of his essays. In his teens and twenties, David dabbled in visual and performance art. Sanderson High School in Raleigh, Sedaris briefly attended Western Carolina University before transferring to and dropping out of Kent State University in 1977. Tiffany died in 2013, a subject David deals with in the essay "Now We Are Five,” which was published in The New Yorker.Īfter graduating from Jesse O. His siblings, from oldest to youngest, are Lisa, Gretchen, Amy, Tiffany, and Paul ("the Rooster"). The Sedaris family moved when David was young, and he grew up in a suburban area of Raleigh, the second oldest child of six. His mother was Protestant, and his father was Greek Orthodox, which was the faith in which David was raised. Sedaris was born in Johnson City, New York to Sharon Elizabeth (née Leonard) and Louis Harry "Lou" Sedaris (1923–2021), an IBM engineer. In 2019, Sedaris was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is the brother and writing collaborator of actress Amy Sedaris. Much of Sedaris's humor is ostensibly 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, New York, and the South Downs in England.
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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. 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. School of the Art Institute of Chicago ( BA)ĭavid Raymond Sedaris ( / s ɪ ˈ d ɛər ɪ s/ born December 26, 1956) is an American humorist, comedian, author, and radio contributor.
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