Did You Know...

In 1987, Sedaris graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago. After holding several menial jobs and doing readings from his diary on the side, a National Public Radio representative caught one of his acts and his humor career began.

His first fame came from The Santaland Diaries (a collection of autobiographical sketches about his life as a Christmas elf at Macy's), which were featured on NPR's Morning Edition series. His radio fans could not get enough of him on the radio, so he began to write books.

In 1994 he published Barrel Fever, a collection of humorous short stories. The collection includes many notable stories as well as a few essays: 'Season's Greetings to Our Friends and Family', 'Glen's Homophobia Newsletter', and 'Diary of a Smoker'. After the great success of Barrel Fever, Sedaris decided to keep writing. He put out the much- anticipated Naked in 1997, another collection of short stories. This guffaw-inspiring book features such stories as 'Get Your Ya-Ya's Out' and 'The Drama Bug'. In the same year a collection of his Christmas stories was packaged into the book Holidays on Ice. This collection of stories was also adapted into a play by a group of actors and playwrights in Austin, TX. Another gathering of short stories by Sedaris came out in 2000.