Biography

Sarah Vowell

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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.
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She does not drive (due to a personal phobia, she never learned) and mostly relies on friends and public transport.
Has a twin sister named Amy.
While working on The Incredibles (2004) she wrote the novel "Assassination Vacation" in which she traveled to the locations where presidents were assassinated.
Suffers from celiac disease, an intolerance to wheat, barley, and rye gluten.
Has voiced her dissatisfaction with Incredibles 2 (2018), saying that although she loved voicing the character of Violet Parr again, she thought the final product was "mediocre" and criticized how it handled her character.

[on being the voice of Violet for The Incredibles] I really loved that whole experience, I loved every part of it. I learned so much about that whole process of how those movies get made and the lighting and the music and the technology.
[on voicing Violet Parr for the first Incredibles movie] The character I played had really long flowing hair and at that point the technology wasn't there to make that girl's hair, and so almost until the end, my character in all the versions I saw up until it was done was bald, because there was this team of guys up in a room somewhere working on her hair, and every so often the producer would go up there and ask 'How's the hair going guys?' and they were still like, 'The hair is still theoretical.' I mean, it was it was it was just such an amazing thing to be part of and to watch them work because I don't really have coworkers in my job.