Dave Eggers is an American writer, editor and publisher.

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.

• 2000: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
• 2002: You Shall Know Our Velocity
• 2006: What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng

• 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

• 2003: Giraffes? Giraffes!

• 2004: Your Disgusting Head

• 2006: Animals of the Ocean, in Particular the Giant Squid

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