The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library has acquired the papers of David Sedaris, noted American humorist, author, and essayist.
Sedaris, who grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina and graduated from the School of the Art Institute in Chicago in 1987, is the author of the works “Naked,” “Me Talk Pretty One Day,” and “Calypso,” among others. He is also known for his many contributions to “This American Life,” a weekly radio show produced in collaboration with WBEZ Chicago and delivered to stations by PRX The Public Radio Exchange.
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The papers — 16.5 linear feet of materials in 33 boxes — are now open for research. They contain writings, correspondence, personal papers, artist books, printed material, audiovisual materials, electronic files, and other papers by or relating to Sedaris.
[Clip] “The Sedaris papers add to the Beinecke Library’s holdings in American literature, and more specifically, to the genre of humor writing and the personal essay, joining the papers of other brilliant contemporary minds such as David Rakoff and Tom Davis,” said Young. He notes that these papers also complement the library’s archives related to social satire, which include papers of cartoonists, illustrators, and authors such as Garry Trudeau, Robert Osborn, Saul Steinberg, Helen E. Hokinson, James Reid Parker, Thornton Wilder, Sinclair Lewis, Peter Newell, and Samuel Clemens.
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