Best-selling author, satirist, and public radio commentator David Sedaris is coming to the Palace Theatre on Friday, Oct. 12 at 8 p.m., presented by CAPA.

With sardonic wit and incisive social critiques, Sedaris has become one of America’s pre-eminent humor writers. He is the author of the bestsellers Barrel Fever and Holidays on Ice, as well as collections of personal essays — Naked, Me Talk Pretty One Day, and Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim — each of which became immediate bestsellers. His essays appear regularly in Esquire and The New Yorker.

Sedaris and his sister, Amy Sedaris, have collaborated under the name “The Talent Family” and have written several plays which have been produced at La Mama, Lincoln Center and The Drama Department in New York City. These plays include Stump the Host, Stitches, One Woman Shoe (which received an Obie Award), Incident at Cobbler’s Knob, and The Book of Liz, which was published in book form by Dramatist’s Play Service.

Sedaris’ original radio pieces can often be heard on This American Life, distributed nationally by Public Radio International and produced by WBEZ. In 2001,

Sedaris became the third recipient of the Thurber Prize for American Humor. He was named by Time Magazine as “Humorist of the Year” in 2001. He edited an anthology of stories, Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules: An Anthology of Outstanding Stories, that was published in April 2005. Sedaris was nominated for two Grammy Awards for Best Spoken Word Album (Dress Your Family in Corduroy & Denim) and Best Comedy Album (David Sedaris: Live at Carnegie Hall).

Tickets are $42.50, $37.50, and $32.50 and are on sale now at the Ohio Theatre Ticket Office (39 E. State St.) and any Ticketmaster outlet. To charge by phone, call (614) 431-3600 or (614) 469-0939. To order on line, go to www.ticketmaster.com.  On the day of the show, the Palace Theatre Ticket Office will open two hours prior to the performance.