David Sedaris

David Sedaris was born in 1956 in New York, but grew up in North Carolina. When he was about 20, he began keeping a diary. A man named Ira Glass, who had a radio show on NPR, discovered this diary. He then started to have a lot of success as a writer. In the early to mid 1990s, he started publishing his works, usually in the form of short story collections. These books included Barrel Fever, Naked, and Me Talk Pretty One Day, which won a prize for humor. During this time, he also began working for NPR, airing on This American Life, a radio show that shares essays and other written works.

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