Dave Eggers
Author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and Mistakes We Knew We Were Making
About the Author
Dave Eggers was born on March 12th, 1970, in Boston, Massachusetts. His family moved to Lake Forest, Illinois when he was a child. Eggers attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, until his parents' deaths in 1991 and 1992. The loss left him responsible for his eight-year-old brother show more and later became the inspiration for his highly acclaimed memoir "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius". Published in 2000, the memoir was nominated for a nonfiction Pulitzer the following year. Eggers edits the popular "The Best American Nonrequired Reading" published annually. In 1998, he founded the independent publishing house, McSweeney's which publishes a variety of magazines and literary journals. Eggers has also opened several nonprofit writing centers for high school students across the United States. Eggers has written several novels and his title, A Hologram for the King, was a finalist for the 2012 National Book Award. His most recent work of fiction, entitled The Circle, was published in 2013. His recent nonfiction books are The Monk of Mokha (January 2018) and What Can a Citizen Do? (Illustrated by Shawn Harris)(September 2018). (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Disambiguation Notice:
Please do not combine this author page with "Doris Haggis-On-Whey" books. Dr. and Mr. Doris Haggis-on-Whey are a joint pseudonym of Dave Eggers and his brother Christopher Eggers. Please note that reviews of The Wild Things and Zeitoun have become confused on the Wild Things review thread.
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Series
Works by Dave Eggers
McSweeney's Issue 13 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): The Comics Issue (2004) — Editor — 1,291 copies
Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans: The Best of McSweeney's Humor Category (2004) — Editor & Introduction — 865 copies
McSweeney's Issue 14 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): McSweeney's at War for the Foreseeable Future and He's Never Been… (2004) — Editor — 400 copies
McSweeney's Issue 19 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Old Facts, New Fiction, & A Novella By T.C. Boyle (2006) — Editor — 399 copies
McSweeney's Issue 17 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Made to Look Like It Came In Your Mailbox (2005) 341 copies
McSweeney's Issue 23 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Still Going Strong Like Castro (We Meant Ramón) (2007) — Editor — 291 copies
McSweeney's Issue 24 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Trouble/Come Back, Donald Barthelme (2007) — Editor — 280 copies
Your Disgusting Head: The Darkest, Most Offensive and Moist Secrets of Your Ears, Mouth and Nose (How Books:… (2004) — Author — 267 copies
One Hundred and Forty Five Stories in a Small Box: Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape, How the Water Feels to the… (2007) 219 copies
McSweeney's Issue 27 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): With Lots of Things Like This/Autophobia (2008) — Contributor — 217 copies
McSweeney's Issue 9 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): We Feel This One Is More Urgent (2002) — Editor — 201 copies
McSweeney's Issue 26 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Three Part Book Set (2008) — Editor — 186 copies
McSweeney's Issue 5 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Sometimes Not Believing How Great This All Is (1975) — Editor — 181 copies
McSweeney's Issue 31 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Vikings, Monks, Philosophers, Whores: Old Forms Unearthed (2009) 180 copies
McSweeney's Issue 33 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): The San Francisco Panorama (2009) — Editor — 138 copies
McSweeney's Issue 45 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Hitchcock and Bradbury Fistfight in Heaven (2013) — Editor — 102 copies
McSweeney's Issue 46 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Thirteen Crime Stories From Latin America (2014) — Editor — 89 copies
Out of Exile: Narratives from the Abducted and Displaced People of Sudan (2008) — Interviews & Introduction — 55 copies
Better than Fiction 2: True adventures from 30 great fiction writers (Lonely Planet Travel Literature) (2015) 29 copies
The Executioner's Song 9 copies
McSweeney's Issue 73 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Manifesto: A Collection of Manifestos (2024) 5 copies
McSweeney's Issue 73 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Manifesto: A Collection of Manifestos 5 copies
McSweney's No. 48 4 copies
McSweeney's Books Sampler No. 1 3 copies
The Alaska of Giants and Gods 3 copies
The Keeper of the Ornaments 3 copies
The Book Makers 1 copy
The Comebacker 1 copy
Where the Candles Are Kept 1 copy
4x Dave Eggers: Includes: What Is the What; How We Are Hungry; You Shall Know Our Velocity; A Heartbreaking Work of… (2009) 1 copy
Hologram for the King,A 1 copy
The Wapshot Scandal 1 copy
Phoenix 1 copy
2018 1 copy
Associated Works
My Bookstore: Writers Celebrate Their Favorite Places to Browse, Read, and Shop (2012) — Contributor — 557 copies
Object Lessons: The Paris Review Presents the Art of the Short Story (2012) — Introduction — 221 copies
Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases (2020) — Contributor — 182 copies
Voices from the Storm: The People of New Orleans on Hurricane Katrina and Its Aftermath (2006) — Series editor — 72 copies
Can You Hear Me Now?: The Inspiration, Wisdom, and Insight of Michael Eric Dyson (2009) — Introduction — 40 copies
McSweeney's Issue 52: In Their Faces a Landmark: Stories of Movement and Displacement (2018) — Founding Editor — 36 copies
Beyond the Possible: 50 Years of Creating Radical Change in a Community Called Glide (2013) — Foreword — 27 copies
Infinite Jest: Part I With a Foreword by Dave Eggers — Foreword, some editions — 7 copies
Thomas Demand: L'Esprit d'Escalier — Contributor — 1 copy
Don't Forget to Write for the Secondary Grades: 50 Enthralling and Effective Writing Lessons, Ages 11 and Up (2011) — Foreword — 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Eggers, Dave
- Legal name
- Eggers, David
- Birthdate
- 1970-03-12
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Places of residence
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
San Francisco, California, USA - Education
- University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- Occupations
- writer
author
novelist
publisher - Relationships
- Vida, Vendela (wife)
Eggers, Christopher (brother)
Demby, Constance (aunt) - Organizations
- McSweeney's
826 Valencia
American Academy of Arts and Letters (2015) - Awards and honors
- Newbery Medal (2024)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (2015)
Prix Médicis (2009)
TED Prize (2008)
Heinz Award (2007)
Addison M. Metcalf Award in Literature (2001) (show all 11)
Carl Sandburg Literary Award (2017)
Dayton Literary Peace Prize (2010)
Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Award
Utne Reader 50 Visionaries Who Are Changing the World (2008)
Brown University honorary Doctor of Letters (2005) - Disambiguation notice
- Please do not combine this author page with "Doris Haggis-On-Whey" books. Dr. and Mr. Doris Haggis-on-Whey are a joint pseudonym of Dave Eggers and his brother Christopher Eggers.
Please note that reviews of The Wild Things and Zeitoun have become confused on the Wild Things review thread.
Members
Discussions
The Circle: Theological undertones in "The Circle" in One LibraryThing, One Book (January 2015)
The Circle: Introduce Yourself! in One LibraryThing, One Book (March 2014)
The Circle: Explicit References to 1984 Could Have Helped in Book talk (February 2014)
The Circle: General Likes/Dislikes in One LibraryThing, One Book (January 2014)
The Circle: First Impressions in One LibraryThing, One Book (December 2013)
The Circle: A Horror Novel? in One LibraryThing, One Book (December 2013)
The Circle: How did it go? in One LibraryThing, One Book (December 2013)
The Circle: What rang true for you? in One LibraryThing, One Book (December 2013)
The Circle: Author's Style in One LibraryThing, One Book (November 2013)
The Circle: Non-spoiler Oddities in One LibraryThing, One Book (November 2013)
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Statistics
- Works
- 167
- Also by
- 43
- Members
- 67,477
- Popularity
- #198
- Rating
- 3.8
- Reviews
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- ISBNs
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