About Sarah Vowell
She is a historian and journalist who has written seven nonfiction books about American history and culture. From 1996 to 2008 she was a contributing editor for the radio program This American Life, creating commentaries and documentaries. She voiced Violet Parr in The Incredibles (2004) and its sequel (2018).
![“The people who visit the [Lincoln] memorial always look like an advertisement for democracy, so bizarrely, suspiciously diverse that one time I actually saw a man in a cowboy hat standing there reading the Gettysburg Address next to a Hasidic Jew. I wouldn’t have been surprised if they had linked…” quote by Sarah Vowell](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/3fe/sarah-vowell-2016_addresses_the-people-who-visit-the-lincoln-memoria_1143653.png)
