Sarah Vowell |
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Sunday, November 16, 2008 |
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| Sarah Vowell is the acclaimed author of five bestselling books. Her distinctive voice has been heard on Chicago Public Radio’s “This American Life” since 1996. She has written documentaries and monologues about everything from the Cherokee Trail of Tears, presidential libraries and Frank Sinatra, to more personal pieces about her father’s homemade cannon, a youthful obsession with The Godfather, and her own goth makeover.
Perhaps her most popular book, Assassination Vacation (2005) is a hilarious and haunting road trip to tourist sites devoted to the murders of presidents Lincoln, Garfield and McKinley. Sarah Vowell is also the author of the essay collections The Partly Cloudy Patriot (2002) and Take the Cannoli (2000). Her first book, Radio On (1997), was a diary of a year spent listening to American radio. In her most recent book, The Wordy Shipmates (2008), Vowell casts her iconoclastic eye on 17th century New England and discovers that the Puritans left a quirkier legacy than the traditional history books would suggest. Sarah Vowell is a former music columnist for Salon.com and the San Francisco Weekly. Her criticism, interviews and essays have appeared in TIME, Esquire, GQ, Spin, the Los Angeles Times and The New York Times. She is a fellow at the New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University, a member of the Authors Guild Council, and president of the board of 826NYC, a nonprofit tutoring and writing center for students aged 6-18 in Brooklyn. Vowell can also be heard as the voice of teen superhero Violet Parr in the Academy Award-winning film, The Incredibles. She lives in New York City. |
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