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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 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) — biography from A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and Mistakes We Knew We Were Making… (more)
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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.

What Is the What 6,684 copies, 162 reviews
The Circle 5,635 copies, 409 reviews
Zeitoun 4,123 copies, 181 reviews
How We Are Hungry 2,220 copies, 25 reviews
A Hologram for the King 1,627 copies, 66 reviews
The Wild Things 1,395 copies, 58 reviews
You Shall Know Our Velocity 1,342 copies, 13 reviews
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2006 (Editor) 751 copies, 10 reviews
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2003 (Editor) 742 copies, 11 reviews
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2004 (Editor) 740 copies, 6 reviews
Heroes of the Frontier 696 copies, 28 reviews
The Monk of Mokha 652 copies, 26 reviews
The Future Dictionary of America (Editor) 622 copies, 3 reviews
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2005 (Editor) 615 copies, 5 reviews
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007 (Editor) 613 copies, 15 reviews
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2002 (Editor) 591 copies, 3 reviews
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008 (Editor) 462 copies, 9 reviews
Giraffes? Giraffes! (Author) 414 copies, 7 reviews
The Every 411 copies, 23 reviews
Her Right Foot 391 copies, 33 reviews
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2009 (Editor) 360 copies, 9 reviews
The Parade 307 copies, 14 reviews
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2010 (Editor) 297 copies, 8 reviews
Where the Wild Things Are [2009 film] (Screenwriter) 289 copies, 10 reviews
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2011 (Editor) 233 copies, 7 reviews
McSweeney's Issue 25 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) (Contributor) 231 copies, 5 reviews
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2012 (Editor) 196 copies, 7 reviews
The Lifters 189 copies, 7 reviews
What Can a Citizen Do? 172 copies, 19 reviews
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2013 (Editor) 150 copies, 2 reviews
McSweeney's Issue 32: 2024 AD (Editor) 141 copies, 3 reviews
The Best of McSweeney's, Volume 1 138 copies, 2 reviews
The Best of McSweeney's {complete} (Editor) 136 copies, 1 review
Tomorrow Most Likely 126 copies, 7 reviews
McSweeney's Nos. 1-3 122 copies, 2 reviews
McSweeney's Issue 38 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) (Editor/Contributor) 105 copies, 4 reviews
McSweeney's Issue 3: Windfall Republic (Editor) 92 copies, 1 review
This Bridge Will Not Be Gray 81 copies, 3 reviews
Cold Fusion (HOW) (Author) 74 copies, 2 reviews
McSweeney's Issue 2: Blues/Jazz Odyssey (Editor) 70 copies, 2 reviews
The Eyes & the Impossible 67 copies, 2 reviews
McSweeney's Issue 1: Gegenshein (Editor) 66 copies, 1 review
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McSweeney's Issue 47 (Editor) 51 copies, 1 review
McSweeney's Issue 43 (Editor) 47 copies, 2 reviews
Faraway Things 44 copies, 1 review
The Museum of Rain 40 copies, 3 reviews
We Became Jaguars 40 copies, 3 reviews
Abner & Ian Get Right-Side Up 39 copies, 2 reviews
Understanding the Sky 23 copies, 3 reviews
The Executioner's Song 9 copies, 1 review
Visitants 6 copies
Le Believer 4 copies, 1 review
2018 1 copy
Phoenix 1 copy
Infinite Jest (Foreword, some editions) 12,850 copies, 241 reviews
Assassination Vacation (Narrator, some editions) 4,519 copies, 157 reviews
Speaking with the Angel (Contributor) 1,508 copies, 17 reviews
McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales (Contributor) 1,447 copies, 19 reviews
The Book of Other People (Contributor) 726 copies, 14 reviews
State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America (Contributor) 500 copies, 10 reviews
Shadow Show (Contributor) 351 copies, 31 reviews
The Best American Travel Writing 2000 (Contributor) 340 copies, 3 reviews
The Kindness of Strangers (Author) 198 copies, 4 reviews
The Best American Essays 2014 (Contributor) 161 copies, 2 reviews
The Thinking Fan's Guide to the World Cup (Contributor) 158 copies, 4 reviews
Who Done It? (Contributor) 133 copies, 4 reviews
Granta 110: Sex (Contributor) 119 copies, 1 review
Burned Children of America (Contributor) 117 copies, 1 review
Art of McSweeney's (Editor) 111 copies, 1 review
A Memory, a Monologue, a Rant, and a Prayer (Contributor) 104 copies, 1 review
The Best American Travel Writing 2016 (Contributor) 94 copies, 3 reviews
Granta 124: Travel (Contributor) 89 copies, 2 reviews
The Best American Magazine Writing 2004 (Contributor) 81 copies, 2 reviews
Shadow Show: Stories In Celebration of Ray Bradbury (Contributor) 45 copies, 1 review
A Hologram For The King [2016 film] (Author, some editions) 44 copies
Yours in Food, John Baldessari (Contributor) 39 copies
Stumbling and Raging (Contributor) 22 copies
Visions of Joanna Newsom (Contributor) 8 copies
Infinite Jest: Part I With a Foreword by Dave Eggers (Foreword, some editions) 3 copies

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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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