# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-sedaris
# Generated: 2026-08-31T22:48:18.549Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-sedaris"
name: "David Sedaris"
slug: "david-sedaris"
description: "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."
tagline: "American author (born 1956)"
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category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1956-12-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump