Dave Eggers

Author details

Aliases:
Dave Eggers, دیو اگرز, David Eggers, and 8 others D. Eggers, דייב אגרס, D. E, Дэйв Эггерс, David K Eggers, דיב אגרס, デイヴ エガーズ, Дейв Егърс
Born:
March 11, 1970

External links

Dave Eggers is the author of six previous books, including his most recent, Zeitoun, a nonfiction account of a Syrian-American immigrant and his extraordinary experience during Hurricane Katrina and What Is the What, a finalist for the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award. That book, about Valentino Achak Deng, a survivor of the civil war in southern Sudan, gave birth to the Valentino Achak Deng Foundation, run by Mr. Deng and dedicated to building secondary schools in southern Sudan. Eggers is the founder and editor of McSweeney’s, an independent publishing house based in San Francisco that produces a quarterly journal, a monthly magazine (The Believer), and Wholphin, a quarterly DVD of short films and documentaries. In 2002, with Nínive Calegari he co-founded 826 Valencia, a nonprofit writing and tutoring center for youth in the Mission District of San Francisco. Local communities have since opened sister 826 centers in Chicago, Los Angeles, Brooklyn, Ann Arbor, Seattle, and Boston. In 2004, Eggers taught at the University of California-Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, and there, with Dr. Lola Vollen, he co-founded Voice of Witness, a series of books using oral history to illuminate human rights crises around the world. A native of Chicago, …

Books by Dave Eggers

Dave Eggers, Dave Eggers: The Circle (Hardcover, 2013, Hamish Hamilton)

The Circle

by ,

Dave Eggers: You Shall Know Our Velocity (2003) No rating

You Shall Know Our Velocity

by

Dave Eggers: Heroes of the Frontier (2016) No rating

Heroes of the Frontier

by

Dave Eggers, Dave Eggers: The Wild Things (2009, McSweeney's Books)

The Wild Things

by ,

Dave Eggers: The Circle (Paperback, 2018, Penguin)

The Circle

by

Dave Eggers: Il cerchio (Paperback, Italiano language, 2022, Feltrinelli)

Il cerchio

by

Dave Eggers: Zeitoun No rating

Zeitoun

by

Dave Eggers, Roddy Doyle: McSweeney's. (Paperback, 2003, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern)

McSweeney's.

by ,