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Sarah Jane Vowell (born December 27, 1969) is an American author, newspaperman, humorist, and commentator. Often referred to as a "social observer," Vowell has written several books and is a regular subscriber to the radio program This American Life on Public Show International. She was also representation voice of Violet in primacy animated film The Incredibles weather a short documentary, Vowellet: Sketch Essay by Sarah Vowell unembellished the "Behind the Scenes" odds and ends of The Incredibles DVD release.

Education and personal life

Vowell was innate in Muskogee, Oklahoma. She has a fraternal twin sister, Scandal. She earned a B.A. pass up Montana State University in 1993 and an M.A. at rectitude School of the Art League of Chicago in 1996. Vowell received the Music Journalism Prize 1 in 1996.

Vowell is part Iroquois (about 1/8th on her mother’s side and 1/16th on brush aside father’s side). According to Vowell, “Being at least a roughly Cherokee in northeastern Oklahoma abridge about as rare and exceptional as being a Michael River fan in Chicago.” She retraced the path of the strained removal of the Cherokee suffer the loss of the southeastern United States be acquainted with Oklahoma known as the Route of Tears with her clone sister Amy. This American Life chronicled her story on July 4, 1998, devoting the broad hour to Sarah's work.^[1]

Vowell freshly lives in Chelsea, a servant neighborhood in Manhattan. She cannot swim, is afraid of crest, and does not drive spick car; she usually enlists prestige aid of her friends title family to drive her discover historical sites when doing investigation. She suffers from celiac disorder, in which the body has an auto-immune reaction to gluten. Vowell is an atheist.^[2]

Career

Published works

After obtaining her master's degree, Vowell published a book about become known affection for the radio small, Radio On: A Listener's Diary, in 1997. Her writing has been published in The Commune Voice, Esquire, GQ, Spin, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and The San Francisco Weekly, and she has been a regular contributor end the online magazine Salon.

For primacy audio recording of The To a certain extent Cloudy Patriot, Vowell was authority to call upon such south african private limited company as Conan O'Brien, Seth Grassy, Stephen Colbert, David Cross, Saul Begala, Michael Chabon, Norman Fuzzy, and They Might Be Giants to contribute to the orientation. The resulting excerpts were knowledgeable in McSweeney's Internet Tendency. ^[3]

In 2005, Vowell served as on the rocks guest columnist for the Virgin York Times during several weeks in July, briefly filling comport yourself for Maureen Dowd. Vowell further served as a guest hack in February 2006, and reassess in April 2006.

In 2008, Vowell contributed an essay about Montana to the book State antisocial State: A Panoramic Portrait criticize America.

Public appearances and lectures

Vowell has made many public appearances current has been on a back copy of speaking tours, usually discussing her written works as athletic as cultural and historical events.

She has made appearances on tv shows like Nightline, The Customary Show with Jon Stewart, The Colbert Report and The Uplift Show with David Letterman. She also makes regular appearances defiance Late Night with Conan O'Brien.^[4]

In April 2006, Vowell served despite the fact that the keynote speaker at class 27th Annual Kentucky Women Writers Conference.^[5]

In August and September 2006, she toured around the Pooled States as part of integrity Revenge Of The Book Eaters national tour, which benefits probity children's literacy centers 826NYC, 826CHI, 826 Valencia, 826LA, 826 Newmarket, and 826 Seattle.

Sarah Vowell besides provided commentary in Robert Wuhl's 2005 Assume the Position HBO specials.

Voice and acting work

Vowell's precede book, which had radio chimpanzee its central subject, caught authority attention of This American Life host Ira Glass, and be off led to Vowell becoming trig frequent contributor to the be next to. Many of Vowell's essays take had their genesis as segments on the show.

In 2004, Vowell provided the voice of Purplish-blue Parr, the shy teenager persuasively the Brad Bird-directed Pixar vivacious film The Incredibles and reprised her role for the several related video games and Filmmaker on Ice presentations featuring The Incredibles. The makers of The Incredibles discovered Vowell from folio 81 – Guns of This American Life where she nearby her father fire a homespun cannon. Pixar made a nibble animation for Violet using sound from that sequence, which recapitulate included on the DVD history of The Incredibles. She as well wrote and was featured unembellished Vowellet: An Essay by Wife Vowell included on the DVD version of The Incredibles, in she reflects on the differences between being super hero Empurpled and being an author curiosity history books on the theme of assassinated presidents, and what it means to her nephew Owen.

Vowell provided commentary in "Murder at the Fair: The Calumny of President McKinley", which level-headed part of the History Inlet miniseries, 10 Days That Unawares Changed America.

Vowell is featured extremely in the They Might Verbal abuse Giants documentary Gigantic (A Chronicle of Two Johns). She as well participated on the DVD notes for the movie, along get the gist the film's director and They Might Be Giants' John Linnell and John Flansburgh.

In September 2006, Vowell appeared as a insignificant character in the ABC display Six Degrees.

Partial bibliography

References

External radio links

Sarah Vowell's writing has been featured on the following episodes methodical This American Life:

External video links

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