Dave Eggers

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born

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

gender

male

website

http://www.mcsweeneys.net/

genre

Biographies & Memoirs, Nonfiction, Literature & Fiction

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Dave Eggers is the author of six previous books, including his most recent, Zeitoun, a nonfiction account 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 C...more

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Books by Dave Eggers

Average rating: 3.79 · 177,204 ratings · 19,804 reviews · 119 distinct works

	A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius 3.60 avg rating — 77,796 ratings — published 2000 — 34 editions	My rating:
	What is the What 4.15 avg rating — 31,395 ratings — published 2006 — 27 editions	My rating:
	Zeitoun 4.15 avg rating — 20,368 ratings — published 2009 — 23 editions	My rating:
	You Shall Know Our Velocity! 3.59 avg rating — 14,124 ratings — published 2002 — 30 editions	My rating:
	How We are Hungry 3.72 avg rating — 6,614 ratings — published 2004 — 13 editions	My rating:
	The Wild Things 3.44 avg rating — 3,055 ratings — published 2009 — 31 editions	My rating:
	The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007 by Dave Eggers (Editor), Sufjan Stevens (Introduction) 3.86 avg rating — 1,702 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2006 by Dave Eggers (Editor), Matt Groening (Introduction), Art Spiegelman (Illustrations) 3.90 avg rating — 1,507 ratings — published 2006 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2004 by Dave Eggers (Editor), Viggo Mortensen (Introduction) 3.86 avg rating — 943 ratings — published 2004 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans: The Best of McSweeney's Humor Category 3.76 avg rating — 1,216 ratings — published 2004 — 4 editions	My rating:

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“We are unusual and tragic and alive.”
― Dave Eggers

tags: life

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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

tags: carpe-diem , love

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“Still though, I think if you're not self-obsessed, you're probably boring.”
― Dave Eggers

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Polls

Which book would you like to see as the selection for our Spring 2011 Group Reads category Biography/Autobiography/Memoir?

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

29 votes, 23.8%

My Life in France by Julia Child

28 votes, 23.0%

Life: Keith Richards by Keith Richards

17 votes, 13.9%

Zeitoun by Dave Eggers

13 votes, 10.7%

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope by William Kamkwamba

11 votes, 9.0%

Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua

8 votes, 6.6%

The Girl from Foreign: A Search for Shipwrecked Ancestors, Lost Loves, and Forgotten Histories by Sadia Shepard

6 votes, 4.9%

Same Kind of Different as Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together by Ron Hall

4 votes, 3.3%

Called Out of Darkness: A Spiritual Confession by Anne Rice

3 votes, 2.5%

Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder

3 votes, 2.5%

122 total votes

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