David Sedaris: Pretty Ugly
Category: Event Calendar
Date and Time
- Monday, Apr 7, 2025 7pm
Location
Akron Civic Theatre
182 S Main St
Details
David Sedaris is one of America’s pre-eminent humor writers. He is a master of satire and one of today’s most observant writers.
There are over 16 million copies of his books in print and they have been translated into 32 languages. He has been awarded the Terry Southern Prize for Humor, Thurber Prize for American Humor, Jonathan Swift International Literature Prize for Satire and Humor, Time 2001 Humorist of the Year Award, as well as the Medal for Spoken Language from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In March 2019 he was elected as a member into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2020 the New York Public Library voted Me Talk Pretty One Day one of the 125 most important books of the last 125 years.
