Dave Eggers

About the author

Born in Boston in 1970, Dave Eggers is an American writer, editor, and publisher whose 2000 memoir A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius became a bestseller and a Pulitzer Prize finalist for General Nonfiction. As much an institution-builder as a writer, he founded the literary journal Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, the literacy project 826 Valencia, the human rights nonprofit Voice of Witness, and ScholarMatch, which connects donors with students seeking college tuition. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, and The New York Times Magazine.