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For fans of Sarah Vowell. A place to discuss her works, her appearances, her signings, sightings or just Sarah in general.

Born in Oklahoma and raised in Montana, Sarah Vowell is best known for her bits on public radio's This American Life. A contributing editor for the program since 1996, she has been a staple of TAL's popular live shows around the country, for which The New York Times has commended her "funny querulous voice and shrewd comic delivery." As a critic and reporter, she has contributed to numerous newspapers and magazines, including Esquire, GQ, Los Angeles Times, The Village Voice, Spin, The New York Times Book Review and McSweeney's. She is a former columnist for Time, Salon.com and San Francisco Weekly. Hip, irreverent, and with a voice that NPR fans of This American Life instantly perk up to, Sarah makes both readers and listeners laugh out loud with her wry, comic observations on everything from politics to pop culture.

Contributes to PRI's This American Life radio program.

Has a twin sister named Amy.

Suffers from celiac disease, an intolerance to wheat, barley, and rye gluten.

While working on "The Incredibles (2004)" she wrote the novel "Assassination Vacation" In which she traveled to the locations where presidents were assassinated.

She does not drive (due to a personal phobia, she never learned) and mostly relies on friends and public transport.

Is friends and frequent traveling companion with Bennett Miller. She talks about him in her book "Assassination Vacation"

Actress - filmography

The Incredibles (2004) (VG) (voice) .... Violet
The Incredibles (2004) (voice) .... Violet Parr

Filmography as: Miscellaneous Crew, Actress, Writer, Self

Writer - filmography

Vowellet: An Essay by Sarah Vowell (2005) (V)

Filmography as: Miscellaneous Crew, Actress, Writer, Self

Self - filmography
(2000s) (1990s)

Assume the Position with Mr. Wuhl (2006) (TV) .... Herself
"The Daily Show"
... aka The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (USA: new title)
... aka The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Global Edition (International: English title: cut version)
- Episode dated 21 February 2006 (2006) TV Episode .... Herself
- Episode dated 19 April 2005 (2005) TV Episode .... Herself
- Episode dated 14 July 2004 (2004) TV Episode .... Herself
- Episode dated 12 September 2002 (2002) TV Episode .... Herself
"Late Night with Conan O'Brien"
- Episode dated 3 February 2006 (2006) TV Episode .... Herself
- Episode dated 8 April 2005 (2005) TV Episode .... Herself
- Episode dated 5 November 2004 (2004) TV Episode .... Herself
- Episode dated 6 November 2003 (2003) TV Episode .... Herself
- Episode dated 11 June 2003 (2003) TV Episode .... Herself
(2 more)
Vowellet: An Essay by Sarah Vowell (2005) (V) .... Herself
"Late Show with David Letterman"
... aka Late Show Backstage (USA: title for episodes with guest hosts)
... aka The Late Show (USA: informal short title)
- Episode dated 5 September 2002 (2002) TV Episode .... Herself
Gigantic (A Tale of Two Johns) (2002) .... Herself

Man in the Sand (1999) (V) .... Herself


arah Vowell has turned her gimlet eye and razor-sharp tongue toward everything from her fathers homemade (and life-size) cannon and her obsession with the Godfather films, to the New Hampshire primary and her Cherokee ancestors forced march on the Trail of Tears. Vowell is best known for her monologues and documentaries for public radios This American Life. A contributing editor for the program since 1996, she has been a staple of TALs popular live shows around the country, for which The New York Times has commended her funny querulous voice and shrewd comic delivery. Thanks to her first book, Radio On: A Listener's Diary, Newsweek named her its Rookie of the Year for non-fiction in 1997, calling her a cranky stylist with talent to burn.

Reviewing her second book, the essay collection Take the Cannoli: Stories from the New World, People magazine said, Wise, witty and refreshingly warm-hearted, Vowells essays on American history, pop culture and her own family reveal the bonds holding together a great, if occasionally weird, nation. Her third book, The Partly Cloudy Patriot, was a national bestseller. Its audio version features the voices of Norman Lear, Paul Begala, and Conan O'Brien with music by They Might Be Giants. Vowell's fourth book, titled Assassination Vacation (April 2005), is a hilarious and haunting road trip through the tourist destinations of the three assassinated American Presidents: Lincoln, Garfield, and McKinley. Its audio book features Conan OBrien, Jon Stewart, Tony Kushner and Stephen King with music by Michael Giacchino.

As a critic and reporter, Sarah Vowell has contributed to numerous newspapers and magazines, including Esquire, GQ, Los Angeles Times, The Village Voice, Spin, The New York Times Book Review and McSweeneys. She is a former columnist for Time, Salon.com and San Francisco Weekly. Her essays appear in The Rose and the Briar, The Future Dictionary of America, Dial-A-Song: Twenty Years of They Might Be Giants, Marcel Dzamas The Berlin Years and Richard Ross Waiting for the End of the World. Vowell is a fellow at the New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU. She is the voice of teenage superhero Violet Parr in Brad Birds The Incredibles, a Pixar Animation Studios film; she produced the documentary short Vowellet, about becoming an action figure while researching presidential assassinations, for the forthcoming Incredibles DVD. She has made numerous appearances on The Late Show with David Letterman and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and is a regular on Late Night with Conan OBrien. She is president of the board of 826NYC, a nonprofit writing and tutoring center for students ages 6-18 in Brooklyn. She is currently at work on a new book about the Puritans tentatively titled Puritan Nation.



Vowell is, at heart, a storyteller. Her gift is one of cosmic inclusionallowing the natural collision of intellect and personality, rigorous research and generational quirks.

The Boston Globe

Sarah Vowell is a Madonna of Americana.

Los Angeles Times

Vowell is and will continue to be one of the more important voices of her generation.

The San Francisco Chronicle


Sarah Vowell (born December 27, 1969) is an American author, journalist, and regular contributor to the radio program This American Life on Public Radio International.
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1 Background
2 Bibliography
3 External radio links
4 External links
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Background

Vowell was born in Muskogee, Oklahoma. She earned a B.A. from Montana State University in 1993 and an M.A. at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1996. Vowell received the Music Journalism Award in 1996.
Deemed a social observer, Vowell has made public appearances in Amsterdam, Seattle, Aspen, and has made appearances on television shows like Nightline, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and The Late Show with David Letterman. She also makes regular appearances on Late Night with Conan O'Brien. Her writing has been published in The Village Voice, Esquire, GQ, Spin, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and The San Francisco Weekly, and she has been a regular contributor to the online magazine Salon.
Vowell lives in New York City, cannot swim, is afraid of heights, and does not drive a car. She usually enlists the aid of her friends and family to drive her to plaques and graves when doing research. She suffers from celiac disease, in which the body has an auto-immune reaction to gluten. She's also an atheist.[1]
Vowell is part Cherokee (about 1/8th on her mothers side and 1/16th on her fathers side). According to Vowell, Being at least a little Cherokee in northeastern Oklahoma is about as rare and remarkable as being a Michael Jordan fan in Chicago. She retraced the path of the forced removal of the Cherokee from the southeastern United States to Oklahoma known as the Trail of Tears with her twin sister Amy. This was chronicled on the July 4th episode of This American Life in 1998, which was devoted entirely to the story. [2]
Vowells twin sister Amy gave her a hair of abolitionist guerrilla warrior John Brown for Christmas, which now decorates her wall. According to her book Assassination Vacation, she gave Amy a DVD player.
For the audio recording of her 2002 book, Vowell was able to call upon such friends as Conan O'Brien, Seth Green, Stephen Colbert, David Cross, Paul Begala, Michael Chabon, Norman Lear, and They Might Be Giants to contribute to the reading. The resulting excerpts were posted in McSweeney's Internet Tendency.[3]
In 2004, Vowell provided the voice of Violet Parr, the shy teenager in the Brad Bird-directed Pixar animated film The Incredibles and reprised her role for the various related video games. The makers of The Incredibles discovered Vowell from an episode of This American Life where she and her father fire a homemade cannon. Pixar made a test animation for Violet using audio from that sequence. She also provided Violet's voice for the Disney on Ice presentation, The Incredibles in a Magic Kingdom Adventure.
She also wrote and was featured in Vowellet: An Essay by Sarah Vowell included on the DVD version of The Incredibles, where she reflects on the differences between being super hero Violet and being an author of history books on the subject of assassinated presidents, and what it means to her nephew Owen.
In 2005, Vowell served as a guest columnist for the New York Times during several weeks in July, briefly filling in for Maureen Dowd.
In February 2006, Vowell, once again, served as a guest columnist for the New York Times. Most recently (April 2006), she can be heard providing commentary in "Murder at the Fair: The Assassination of President McKinley", which is part of the History Channel miniseries, "10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America". She also served as a presenter at the 27th Annual Kentucky Women Writers Conference, which took place from April 20-23, 2006.
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Bibliography

1997 Radio On: A Listener's Diary ISBN 0-312-18301-1
2000 Take the Cannoli: Stories From the New World ISBN 0-743-20540-5
2002 The Partly Cloudy Patriot ISBN 0-743-24380-3
2005 Assassination Vacation ISBN 0-743-26003-1