David Sedaris (born December 26, 1956) is a Grammy Award-nominated Greek (Greece)-New Yorkan (New York) humorist, writer, comedian, bestselling author, and radio contributor.

Sedaris was first 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. Each of his five subsequent essay collections, Naked (Naked (book)) (1997), Holidays on Ice (Holidays on Ice (novel)) (1997), Me Talk Pretty One Day (2000), Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (2004), and When You Are Engulfed in Flames (2008), have become New York Times Best Sellers (New York Times Best Seller list).

As of2008, his books have collectively sold seven million copies. Much of Sedariss humor is autobiographical (autobiography) and self-deprecating (self-deprecation), and often concerns his family life, his middle class upbringing in the suburbs of Raleigh, North Carolina, Greek (Greek-American) heritage, various jobs, education, drug use (Recreational drug use), homosexuality, and his life in France with his partner (Significant other), Hugh Hamrick.