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Dave Eggers


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

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Genre
Biographies & Memoirs, Nonfiction, Literature & Fiction

Influences
Joan Didion, Kurt Vonnegut, John Barth, Jack Kerouac, Gore Vidal, Davi ...more


Dave Eggers is the author of ten books, including most recently Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?, The Circle and A Hologram for the King, which was a finalist for the 2012 National Book Award. He is the founder of McSweeney’s, an independent publishing company based in San Francisco that produces books, a quarterly journal of new writing (McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern), and a monthly magazine, The Believer. McSweeney’s also publishes Voice of Witness, a nonprofit book series that uses oral history to illuminate human rights crises around the world. Eggers is the co-founder of 826 National, a network of eight tutoring centers around the country and ScholarMatch, a nonprofit organization designed to connec ...more

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Average rating: 3.7 · 754,481 ratings · 73,436 reviews · 280 distinct works • Similar authors
The Circle (The Circle, #1)
3.43 avg rating — 207,939 ratings — published 2013 — 132 editions
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A Heartbreaking Work of Sta...
3.69 avg rating — 178,213 ratings — published 2000 — 98 editions
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What Is the What
4.14 avg rating — 83,166 ratings — published 2006 — 65 editions
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Zeitoun
4.05 avg rating — 77,002 ratings — published 2009 — 72 editions
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You Shall Know Our Velocity!
3.63 avg rating — 28,756 ratings — published 2002 — 10 editions
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A Hologram for the King
3.29 avg rating — 28,233 ratings — published 2012 — 15 editions
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The Monk of Mokha
4.07 avg rating — 17,798 ratings — published 2018 — 49 editions
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How We Are Hungry: Stories
3.74 avg rating — 13,378 ratings — published 2004 — 35 editions
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Heroes of the Frontier
3.44 avg rating — 13,216 ratings — published 2016 — 48 editions
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The Every (The Circle, #2)
3.72 avg rating — 10,824 ratings — published 2021 — 33 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
tags: books, time
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“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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