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- Born: March 12, 1970
- Birthplace: Boston, Massachusetts
- Alma Mater: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Spouse: Vendela Vida
- Literary Genre: Non-fiction, Literary Fiction
- Founder: McSweeney's
- Co-Founder: 826 National
- Awards: TED Prize Winner (2008)
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Career
Dave Eggers began his career working for Salon.com as an editor. In 2000, his memoir, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. He published his first novel, You Shall Know Our Velocity, in 2002. His 2006 novel, What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng, was nominated for a National Book Critics Award in 2006.Eggers publishes the magazines The Believer and McSweeney's under the publishing house also called McSweeney's. With Vendela Vida and Nínive Clements Calegari, Eggers co-founded 826 National, a nonprofit tutoring center and writing school.
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@bfchirpy That's one of the Dave Eggers workshops, right? The one in San Francisco is pirate-themed, if I remember rightly.
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Jonathan Demme ("The Silence of the Lambs") is adapting Dave Eggers' book on Hurricane Katrina "Zeitoun" via animation in 2011 @IMDb
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Dave Eggers - Conoscerete la nostra velocità - “You invite things to happen. You open the door. You inhale.... http://tumblr.com/xx23ypez8
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Zeitoun by Dave Eggers is the best book I've read in a while, and it made me hate the Bush Admin more than I already did, that's impressive!
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What Is the What - $15.95
What Is the What is the epic novel based on the life of Valentino Achak Deng who, along with thousands of other children--the so-called Lost Boys--was forced to leave his village in Sudan at the age of seven and trek hundreds of mile...
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How We Are Hungry - $13.95
"Another" "What It Means When a Crowd in a Faraway Nation Takes a Soldier Representing Your Own Nation, Shoots Him, Drags Him from His Vehicle and Then Mutilates Him in the Dust" "The Only Meaning of the Oil-Wet Water" "On...
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You Shall Know Our Velocity - $14.95
In his first novel, Dave Eggers has written a moving and hilarious tale of two friends who fly around the world trying to give away a lot of money and free themselves from a profound loss.It reminds us once again what an important, necessar...
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What Is the What (Vintage) - $15.95
What Is the What is the epic novel based on the life of Valentino Achak Deng who, along with thousands of other children--the so-called Lost Boys--was forced to leave his village in Sudan at the age of seven and trek hundreds of mile...
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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - $14.95
The literary sensation of the year, a book that redefines both family and narrative for the twenty-first century. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is the moving memoir of a college senior who, in the space of five weeks, los...
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View All Dave Eggers Questions (69) | Ask a Questionwhere can i find the wizzinator dave (1 Answer)They don't sell the whizzinator anymore. The company was shut down and its founders and executives were indicted by federal investigators for fraud and for selling drug paraphernalia. You can ... read moreIs there a Pandora-type site to find new book authors Id like? (3 Answers)Although still in Beta, BookLamp.org's stated goal is to be a 'Pandora' for books. Here's a site description: BookLamp.org matches readers to books through an analysis of writing styles, similar ... read moreIs there a clip of the night Paul got mad at Dave and threw his sheet music all over the place???? (2 Answers)I was not able to find anything about Paul Shaffer getting mad at David Letterman. As a consolation, I am attaching the clip of David Letterman venting about getting stood ... read more
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Fiction
- 2002: You Shall Know Our Velocity
- 2003: Sacrament
- 2004: The Unforbidden is Compulsory; or, Optimism
- 2004: How We Are Hungry
- 2005: Short Short Stories
- 2006: What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng
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Humor Books
- 2003: Giraffes? Giraffes!
- 2004: Your Disgusting Head
- 2006: Animals of the Ocean, in Particular the Giant Squid
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