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Dave Eggers


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in Boston, Massachusetts, The United States
March 12, 1970

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Dave Eggers is an American writer, editor, and publisher. He is best known for his 2000 memoir, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, which became a bestseller and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. Eggers is also the founder of several notable literary and philanthropic ventures, including the literary journal Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, the literacy project 826 Valencia, and the human rights nonprofit Voice of Witness. Additionally, he founded ScholarMatch, a program that connects donors with students needing funds for college tuition. His writing has appeared in numerous prestigious publications, including The New Yorker, Esquire, and The New York Times Magazine. ...more

Average rating: 3.71 · 844,547 ratings · 85,127 reviews · 352 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Circle (The Circle, #1)

3.43 avg rating — 230,243 ratings — published 2013 — 9 editions
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A Heartbreaking Work of Sta...

3.69 avg rating — 183,452 ratings — published 2000 — 114 editions
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What Is the What

4.15 avg rating — 87,154 ratings — published 2006 — 84 editions
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Zeitoun

4.05 avg rating — 80,056 ratings — published 2009 — 96 editions
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You Shall Know Our Velocity!

3.63 avg rating — 29,524 ratings — published 2002 — 66 editions
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A Hologram for the King

3.29 avg rating — 29,540 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions
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The Monk of Mokha

4.09 avg rating — 22,029 ratings — published 2018 — 50 editions
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The Every (The Circle, #2)

3.69 avg rating — 16,897 ratings — published 2021 — 37 editions
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The Eyes & the Impossible

4.23 avg rating — 14,049 ratings — published 2023 — 16 editions
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How We Are Hungry

3.75 avg rating — 13,908 ratings — published 2004 — 47 editions
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“Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.”
Dave Eggers

“We are unusual and tragic and alive.”
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“I will not wait to love as best as I can. We thought we were young and that there would be time to love well sometime in the future. This is a terrible way to think. It is no way to live, to wait to love.”
Dave Eggers, What Is the What

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