History Creator / DavidSedaris

He is a frequent contributor to the PRX show ''Radio/ThisAmericanLife'' and to ''Magazine/TheNewYorker'' magazine. Creator/AmySedaris is his sister, and, like the rest of his family, is a character in some of his essays. They've worked together a number of times.

* StraightGay: Very, which sometimes caused friction in his family and school life where he couldn't hide it...and then later in life, when he was so straight laced that he had wildly specific standards in men, and felt alienated from the nightclub scene of the time, which was very ''not'' built for him.

He is a frequent contributor to the Public Radio International show ''Radio/ThisAmericanLife'' and to ''Magazine/TheNewYorker'' magazine. Creator/AmySedaris is his sister, and, like the rest of his family, is a character in some of his essays. They've worked together a number of times.

* AchievementsInIgnorance: He was kicked out of his parents house after his father learned he was gay, but he only learned about ''why'' weeks after the fact when his mother broke down in the car with him about it. He thought he'd been kicked out for being a drug addict.

* VocalDissonance: David's voice is much more feminine than his looks imply. Apparently it's a trait among the Sedaris men.

* FunWithForeignLanguages: During the period in which he didn't speak french all that well, he attempted to avoid gendered words as much as possible...which led him to using plurals of words as a patch, ending up with him crowding his house with a number of different things, including almost 4 pounds of tomatoes. Hugh forbade him from going to the market until his french improved.

* AchievementsInIgnorance: He was kicked out of his parents house after his father learned he was gay, but he only learned about ''why'' months after the fact when his mother broke down in the car with him about it. He thought he'd been kicked out for being a drug addict.

* StraightGay: Very, which sometimes caused friction in his family and school life where he couldn't hide it...and then later in life when he was so straight laced that he had wildly specific standards

David Raymond Sedaris (born December 26, 1956) is an American humor writer. He is known mostly for his autobiographical essays, which cover a variety of subjects from his childhood and family to his drug-abusing, odd-job-working, performance-art-dabbling-in years to living abroad in France, Japan and the U.K. with his long-time boyfriend, Hugh.

* NeatFreak: Sedaris is infamous for picking up stray litter to the point he had a garbage truck named after him in england.
* StraightGay: Very, which sometimes caused friction in his family and school life where he couldn't hide it.
* VocalDissonance: David's voice is much more feminine than you'd expect.

His first mainstream recognition came in 1992 when NPR aired [[http://www.npr.org/2005/12/23/5066175/sedaris-and-crumpet-the-elf-a-holiday-tradition The Santaland Diaries]], his story about working as an elf in a Macy's one Christmastime. Since then he's become one of the most popular humorists writing today, [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff including outside the U.S.]], and has published several books.

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* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: He's well known in his native U.S.A., but in the past few years he's gained quite the following in his adopted home in the U.K. too, to the point where he now has a regular series on BBC Radio 4. [[note]]Radio 4 is the country's primary literary/drama/sitcom radio channel, 1-3 being more focused on music, news, and sport. Despite the decline of the popularity of radio in the U.K., it's still a pretty big deal to have a long-running show in an early-evening time-slot that premieres on the main channel rather than its sister channel.[[/note]]
* HarsherInHindsight: Try reading anything he's ever written about Tiffany, especially "Put a Lid On It," after reading "Now We Are Five."

David Sedaris is an American humor writer born in 1956. He is known mostly for his autobiographical essays, which cover a variety of subjects from his childhood and family to his drug-abusing, odd-job-working, performance-art-dabbling-in years to living abroad in France, Japan and the U.K. with his long-time boyfriend, Hugh.

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: He's well known in his native U.S.A., but in the past few years he's gained quite the following in his adopted home in the U.K. too, to the point where he now has a regular series on BBC Radio 4 (the country's primary spoken word radio channel).

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: He's well known in his native U.S.A., but in the past few years he's gained quite the following in his adopted home in the U.K. too, to the point where he now has a regular series on BBC Radio 4.

-->This afternoon Santa got an Asian child who wasn't familiar with the idea of leaving cookies. Santa asked what she was going to leave him to eat, and she got a puzzled look on her face. He said, "Something round to eat?" and she said, "A potato?"

More recently he's begun writing "fables," stories about {{Funny Animal}}s in mundane human situations, which are collected in ''Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary'' (2010). He also edited a 2005 short-story anthology called ''Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules''.

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He is a frequent contributor to the Public Radio International show ''Radio/ThisAmericanLife'' and to ''Magazine/TheNewYorker'' magazine. AmySedaris is his sister, and, like the rest of his family, is a character in some of his essays. They've worked together a number of times.