Author

Books by Dave Eggers

Dave Eggers was born in 1970 in Boston and grew up in Lake Forest, Illinois. After losing both parents to cancer in 1991 and 1992, he moved to San Francisco and co-founded the satirical magazine Might. He subsequently founded McSweeney's, a literary publishing house, the youth writing nonprofit 826 Valencia, and Voice of Witness, an oral history series. He has written numerous books of fiction, memoir, and journalism, including What Is the What and Zeitoun. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2001.