Dave Eggers is an American author who came to the attention
of the reading public with his ironic memoir A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, published in 2000. His
most recent work, A Hologram for the King, was
a finalist for the 2012 National Book Award in the category of fiction. His
narrative of a Syrian-American who stays behind to care for his neighbors in
the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Zeitoun,
won the National Book Award for Non-Fiction in 2009. He is the founder and editor of McSweeney’s,
an independent publishing house based in San Francisco. In 2002 he helped found 826 Valencia, a
non-profit writing and tutoring center for youth in the Mission District of San
Francisco.
His adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are was made into a feature film starring
James Gandolfini. As a journalist,
novelist, editor and publisher Dave Eggers continues to push creative writing
into new and surprising directions.
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