David Sedaris, internationally acclaimed New York Times bestselling author and National Public Radio humorist, returns by popular demand for his annual visit to the State Theatre at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 29.

Tickets are currently available for purchase by visiting www.hennepintheatretrust.org or by calling 1-800-982-2787. Tickets range from $36.50 to $46.50 depending on seating preference. All prices include applicable facility fees.

Sedaris is the author of many titles, including the recent bestseller “Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls,” and other collections of essays such as “Me Talk Pretty One Day,” “Barrel Fever” and “Holidays On Ice.” Sedaris’s pieces appear regularly in The New Yorker and have twice been included in “The Best American Essays.”

A collection of fables entitled “Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary,” with illustrations by Ian Falconer, was published in September 2010 and immediately hit the New York Times bestseller fiction list. His original radio pieces are often heard on “This American Life” on Minnesota Public Radio.

He has collaborated with his sister, Amy Sedaris, under the name “The Talent Family” writing six 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 Dramatists Play Service.