Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts Presents Sarah Vowell Book Signing Today

Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts will present a reading and book signing by bestselling author Sarah Vowell today, April 28, at 8 p.m. 

Tickets are available for $29 and $39 online at www.ScottsdalePerformingArts.org or through the Patron Services Box Office at (480) 499-TKTS (8587).

Sarah Vowell is The New York Times bestselling author of six nonfiction books on American history and culture. Exploring the connections between the American past and present, her books offer personal, often humorous accounts of everything from presidents and their assassins to colonial religious fanatics, as well as thoughts on American Indians, utopian dreamers, pop music and the odd cranky cartographer.

Vowell’s most recent book, Unfamiliar Fishes (2011), is the intriguing history of the 50^th state, Hawaii, annexed in 1898. Replete with a cast of beguiling and often tragic characters, including an overthrown Hawaiian queen, whalers, missionaries, sugar barons, Teddy Roosevelt and assorted con men, Unfamiliar Fishes is a history lesson in Americana as only Vowell can tell it – with brainy wit and droll humor.

Vowell was a contributing editor for Public Radio International’s This American Life from 1996–2008, where she produced numerous commentaries and documentaries and toured the country in many of the program’s live shows. She was one of the original contributors to the journal McSweeney’s, also participating in many of its readings and shows. She has been a columnist for Salon.com, Time and San Francisco Weekly and continues to write occasional essays for the opinion page of The New York Times.

Vowell also 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 was the voice of teen superhero Violet Parr in Pixar’s Academy Award-winning animated film The Incredibles.

Vowell will give a reading and answer questions from the audience, followed by a book signing.

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