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).
![“...it’s worth pointing out that [Herman Melville] worked in [the New York Custom House] as a deputy customs inspector between 1866 and 1885. Nineteen years, and he never got a raise - four dollars a day, six days a week. He was by then a washed-up writer, forgotten and poor. I used to find this…” quote by Sarah Vowell](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/de7/sarah-vowell-2016_american-author_it-s-worth-pointing-out-that-herman-melv_1754176.jpg)
