Sarah Vowell
April 01, 2012 | 8pm
Ruby Diamond Concert Hall
“Vowell is and will continue to be one of the more important voices of her generation.” – The San Francisco Chronicle
Sarah Vowell is the acclaimed author of five bestselling books. With irreverent humor and bone-dry wit, this “Madonna of Americana” (Los Angeles Times) has written about colonial religious fanatics, the Cherokee Trail of Tears, presidential libraries, Frank Sinatra, utopian dreamers, and the odd cranky cartographer, as well as more personal pieces about her father’s homemade cannon, a youthful obsession with The Godfather and her own Goth makeover.
A contributing editor for Public Radio International’s This American Life from 1996-2008, Vowell was an original contributor to McSweeney’s, and has been a columnist for Salon, Time, San Francisco Weekly and continues to write occasional essays for the New York Times.
She has made numerous appearances on the Late Show with David Letterman, Late Night with Conan O’Brien and the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. She is the voice of teen superhero Violet Parr in Brad Bird’s Academy Award-winning The Incredibles, a Pixar Animation Studios film.
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