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Dave Eggers

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

gender
male

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genre
Biographies & Memoirs, Nonfiction, Literature & Fiction


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Dave Eggers is the author of six previous books, including his most recent, A Hologram for the King, about a struggling businessman pursuing a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter's college tuition, and finally do something great. In this novel the author takes us around the world to show how one man fights to hold himself and his splintering family together in the face of the global economy's gale-force winds. This novel is an evocation of our comtemporary moment and how we got here.

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 documentarie...more


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Dave Eggers's Books

Average rating: 3.80 · 243,542 ratings · 24,546 reviews · 94 distinct works · Similar authors
A Heartbreaking Work of Sta...
3.63 of 5 stars 3.63 avg rating — 100,068 ratings — published 2000 — 41 editions
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What Is the What
4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 40,421 ratings — published 2006 — 35 editions
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Zeitoun
4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 32,265 ratings — published 2009 — 28 editions
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You Shall Know Our Velocity!
3.6 of 5 stars 3.60 avg rating — 17,361 ratings — published 2002 — 32 editions
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How We Are Hungry
3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 8,385 ratings — published 2004 — 16 editions
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A Hologram for the King
3.38 of 5 stars 3.38 avg rating — 6,196 ratings — published 2012 — 20 editions
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The Wild Things
3.45 of 5 stars 3.45 avg rating — 4,205 ratings — published 2009 — 34 editions
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The Best American Non-Requi...
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3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 1,988 ratings — published 2007
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Best American Non-Required Reading (11 books)
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3.8623966549463082 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 10,523 ratings
McSweeney's Quarterly Conce... McSweeney's Quarterly Conce... McSweeney's Quarterly Conce... McSweeney's Quarterly Conce... McSweeney's Quarterly Conce... McSweeney's Issue 6: WE NOW... McSweeney's Issue 7
McSweeney's Quarterly Concern (40 books)
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3.831772784019975 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 6,408 ratings
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The Best Of McSweeney's (2 books)
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3.661417322834646 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 127 ratings

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Quotes by Dave Eggers

“Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.”
― Dave Eggers
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“We are unusual and tragic and alive.”
― Dave Eggers
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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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