Marvelous Krys Boyd didn’t have much to do last night, sitting in a comfy chair across from Sarah Vowell, under the massive gold cross in the First Presbyterian Church of Dallas. Vowell, who appeared ...

Bestselling author Sarah Vowell will be giving a reading and book signing at the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts on Saturday, April 28, at 8 p.m.. You may know her wise cracking, dry-humored ...

BOSTON — Sarah Vowell has some unconventional thoughts about the Puritans — not the Pilgrims who sailed from England on the Mayflower and ended up in Plymouth, but the OTHER Puritans, the ones who ...

If you're a fan of the public radio program "This American Life," or if you remember the sweetly sarcastic character Violet from the recent film The Incredibles, you're already familiar with Sarah ...

Sarah Vowell’s latest tome, Unfamiliar Fishes, takes its title from a letter by native Hawaiian David Malo, who was converted to Christianity by nineteenth-century missionaries but was still concerned ...

After suffering through years of history lessons about the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and John Winthrop’s role in shaping his “city upon a hill,” one would think that (yet another) novel ...

Author and radio host Sarah Vowell has been accused of being smart and a smart-ass, a curmudgeon hiding behind a pen, a radio mike and a sweet face. But, despite her often-sarcastic tone, people who ...

Sarah Jane Vowell (born December 27, 1969) is an American historian, author, journalist, essayist, social commentator, and actress. She has written seven nonfiction books on American history and ...

The future Marquis de Lafayette was born in a medieval chateau and named Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du Motier. He came from a long line of warriors with a knack for dying young in battle.