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Dave Eggers was dropped in Beantown, Massachusetts restriction March 12, 1970. Interpretation son domination a legal practitioner and a school doctor, Eggers grew up momentously in Socket Forest, Algonquin, in picture Chicago suburbs. Eggers premeditated journalism articulate the Academia of Algonquin at Urbana-Champaign before both his parents died a moment, his progenitrix of potbelly cancer other his papa from instinct and unfriendly cancer, rendering circumstances pale which capture described regulate detail beginning Eggers' warmly acclaimed narrative, A Embarrassing Work fail Staggering Genius.

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Associate the stain of his parents, Eggers moved chance on Berkeley, Calif. with his eight-year-old jr. brother, Toph, who Eggers was condensed responsible mention raising. Long forgotten Toph accompanied school, Eggers worked energy a regional newspaper. As this period, he worked for Salon.com and co-founded Might Magazine.

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Dave Eggers is the author of many books, including The Circle, The Monk of Mokha, What is the What, A Hologram for the King, and The Lifters.

He is founder of McSweeney’s, an independent publishing company based in San Francisco that produces books, a humor website, and a journal of new writing, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern. 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 youth writing and tutoring centers around the United States. Numerous other organizations worldwide operate with inspiration from the 826 National model. Realizing the need for greater college access for low-income students, Eggers founded ScholarMatch, a nonprofit organization designed to connect students with resources, schools and donors to make college possible.

Eggers’s novel What Is the What, about the life of Valentino Achak Deng, a refugee from the civil war in South Sudan, gave birth to the Valentino Achak Deng Foundation, run by Mr. Deng. VADF operates secondary schools in South Sudan.

Eggers’s books for young readers include What Can a Citizen Do?, Her Right Foot, This Bridge Will Not Be Gray, and The Wild Things,

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Eggers, Dave

Personal

Born 1970, in Boston, MA. Education: Attended University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (journalism and painting).

Addresses

Office—c/o McSweeney's, 826 Valencia St., San Francisco, CA 94110.

Career

Journalist and editor. Might (magazine), founder and editor, 1994-97; Salon.comSan Francisco, CA, editor of "Media Circus" section, c. mid-1990s; Esquire,New York, NY, editor-at-large, 1997; editor of McSweeney's (quarterly journal and Web site), 1997—. Consultant for ESPN. Has appeared on various radio and television shows, including This American Life, for National Public Radio, and The Real World, for Music Television.

Writings

(And editor, with others) For the Love of Cheese: The Editors of Might Magazine, Boulevard Books (New York, NY), 1996.

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (memoir), Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 2000.

You Shall Know Our Velocity, McSweeney's, 2002.

(Editor with Michael Cart) The Best American Nonrequired Reading, 2002, Houghton Mifflin (Boston, MA), 2002.

Contributor to numerous periodicals.

Sidelights

Dave Eggers' first splash in publishing was a big one: the audaciously titled A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. Published in 2000, the book caught the attention of the m