Dave Eggers

{{Short description|American writer, editor, and publisher (born 1970)|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{For|the film score composer|Dave Eggar}} {{Use American English|date=November 2024}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2014}} {{Infobox writer | name = Dave Eggers | image = Dave Eggers (11483).jpg | caption = Eggers in 2018 | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1970|3|12|mf=y}} | birth_place = Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = {{flatlist| * Writer * editor * publisher * philanthropist }} | period = 1993–present | movement = Postmodern literature, post-postmodern, new sincerity | website = {{URL|http://www.mcsweeneys.net}} {{URL|http://www.daveeggers.net}} | spouse = Vendela Vida (2003-present) | children = 2 | relatives = William D. Eggers (brother) Constance Demby (aunt) | education = University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign | notable_works = {{unbulleted list||''A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius''|''You Shall Know Our Velocity''|''What Is the What''|''Zeitoun''|''A Hologram for the King''|''The Circle''}} }}

'''Dave Eggers''' (born March 12, 1970) is an American writer, editor, and publisher. His 2000 memoir, ''A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius'', became a bestseller and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. Eggers is also the founder of several literary and philanthropic ventures, including the literary journal ''Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern'', the literacy project ''826 Valencia'', and the human rights non-profit organisation ''Voice of Witness''. Additionally, he founded ''ScholarMatch'', a program that connects donors with students needing funds for college tuition. His writing has appeared in publications including ''The New Yorker'', ''Esquire'', and ''The New York Times Magazine''.

==Early life== Eggers was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and raised in a family with three siblings. His father, John K. Eggers (1936–1991), was an attorney, and his mother, Heidi McSweeney Eggers (1940–1992), was a schoolteacher. The family moved to Lake Forest, Illinois, where Eggers attended public high school and was a classmate of actor Vince Vaughn.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Cadwalladr |first=Carole |date=2006-07-09 |title=Just good friends? |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2006/jul/09/features.magazine |access-date=2024-09-03 |work=The Observer |language=en-GB |issn=0029-7712}}</ref>

Eggers attended the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign to earn a degree in journalism. However, his studies were interrupted by the deaths of both parents: his father in 1991 and his mother in 1992. These events were later chronicled in his first book, the fictionalized memoir ''A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius''. At age 21, Eggers took responsibility for his younger brother, Christopher ("Toph"), and moved to Berkeley, California. His elder brother, William D. Eggers, is a researcher who has worked for several conservative think tanks, promoting privatization.<ref>{{cite web |date=n.d. |title=William D. Eggers |url=http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/eggers.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070212013051/http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/eggers.htm |archive-date=February 12, 2007 |access-date=2007-02-19 |publisher=Manhattan Institute for Policy Research |df=mdy-all}}</ref> Eggers's sister Beth died by suicide in November 2001.<ref>{{cite news |author=Preston, John |date=December 29, 2009 |title=Dave Eggers interview: the heartbreak kid |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/6865365/Dave-Eggers-interview-the-heartbreak-kid.html |access-date=September 22, 2010 |work=The Daily Telegraph |location=London}}</ref><ref>Kahn, H. (2014, December 3). Dave Eggers, Unplugged. ''Wall Street Journal''. Retrieved September 3, 2024, from <nowiki>https://www.wsj.com/articles/dave-eggers-unplugged-1417620930</nowiki></ref>

==Career== {{BLP sources section|date=February 2017}} [[File:Valentino Deng & Dave Eggers in San Mateo 10-1-08 2.JPG|alt=|thumb|Eggers worked with Sudan refugee Valentino Achak Deng to tell a fictionalized account of Achak's life story.]] thumb|Eggers in October 2008 Eggers began writing as a Salon.com editor and founded ''Might'' magazine in San Francisco in 1994 with David Moodie and Marny Requa, while also writing a comic strip called ''Smarter Feller'' (originally ''Swell'') for ''SF Weekly''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sfweekly.com/2000-03-08/culture/growing-up-in-public/full|date=March 8, 2000|access-date=2007-02-21|title="Growing Up in Public: David Eggers and Ann Powers" by Mark Athitakis|work=SF Weekly|archive-date=November 3, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121103030942/http://www.sfweekly.com/2000-03-08/culture/growing-up-in-public/full/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

''Might'' evolved out of the small San Francisco-based independent paper ''Cups'', and gathered a loyal following with its irreverent humor and quirky approach to the issues and personalities of the day.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Galow |first=Timothy W. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kCW6BwAAQBAJ |title=Understanding Dave Eggers |date=2014-11-12 |publisher=Univ of South Carolina Press |isbn=978-1-61117-428-1 |pages=13 |language=en}}</ref> An article purporting to be an obituary of former 1980s child star Adam Rich (originally intended to be ''Back to the Future'' star Crispin Glover until Glover backed out) garnered some national attention.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Risser|first=Nathan|date=2021-07-29|title=Don't Kill Your Darlings: Dave Eggers, Faking Death and Might Magazine|url=https://www.neonbooks.org.uk/dave-eggers-faking-death-might-magazine/|access-date=2021-12-18|website=Neon Books|language=en-GB|archive-date=December 18, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211218022846/https://www.neonbooks.org.uk/dave-eggers-faking-death-might-magazine/|url-status=dead}}</ref> The magazine regularly included humor pieces, and several essays and nonfiction pieces by seminal writers of the 1990s, including "Impediments to Passion", an essay on sex in the AIDS era by David Foster Wallace.

Eggers later recounted in his memoir ''A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius'' that the magazine struggled to profit and stopped publication in 1997. An anthology of the best of ''Might'' magazine's brief run, ''{{'}}Shiny Adidas Tracksuits and the Death of Camp' and Other Essays from Might Magazine'', was published in late 1998. By this time, Eggers was freelancing for ''Esquire'' and continuing to work for Salon.{{citation needed|date=February 2017}}

''A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius'', published in 2000, is Eggers's first book, a memoir with fictional elements, and it focuses on his struggle to raise his younger brother in the San Francisco Bay Area following the deaths of both of their parents. The book quickly became a bestseller and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. The memoir was praised for its originality, idiosyncratic self-referencing, and several innovative stylistic elements.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Hoffmann|first1=Lukas|title=Postirony: The Nonfictional Literature of David Foster Wallace and Dave Eggers|date=2016|publisher=transcript|location=Bielefeld|isbn=978-3-8376-3661-1}}</ref> Early printings of the 2001 trade-paperback edition were published with a lengthy postscript entitled, ''Mistakes We Knew We Were Making''.{{Citation needed|date=December 2011}}

In 2002, Eggers published his second novel, ''You Shall Know Our Velocity'', a story about a frustrating attempt to give away money to deserving people while haphazardly traveling the globe. An expanded and revised version was released as ''Sacrament'' in 2003. A version without the new material in ''Sacrament'' was created and retitled ''You Shall Know Our Velocity!'' for a Vintage imprint distribution. He has since published ''How We Are Hungry'', a collection of short stories, and three politically themed serials for Salon.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://archive.salon.com/books/eggers/index.html|year=2004|access-date=2007-02-21|title=Introducing (again) Dave Eggers|work=Salon.com|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061117001949/http://archive.salon.com/books/eggers/index.html|archive-date=November 17, 2006|df=mdy-all}}</ref>

In November 2005, Eggers published ''Surviving Justice: America's Wrongfully Convicted and Exonerated'', a book of interviews with former prisoners sentenced to death and later exonerated. The book was compiled with Lola Vollen, a specialist in the aftermath of prominent human rights abuses and a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley's Institute of International Studies.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.voiceofwitness.com/abouted.html|access-date=2007-02-20|title=Surviving Justice: About the Editors|work=Voice of Witness|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070716024346/http://www.voiceofwitness.com/abouted.html|archive-date=July 16, 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Eggers' 2006 novel ''What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng'' was a finalist for the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bookcritics.org/?go=finalists|access-date=2007-03-11|title=NBCC Awards Finalists|work=The National Book Critics Circle|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070205013337/http://www.bookcritics.org/?go=finalists|archive-date=February 5, 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref> Eggers also edits the ''Best American Nonrequired Reading'' series, an annual anthology of short stories, essays, journalism, satire, and alternative comics.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8hIXqvmA9LMC |title=The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2011 |author= |date=2021 |publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |isbn=978-0-547-57743-2 |access-date=2024-07-07 |quote=}}</ref>

Eggers was one of the original contributors to ''ESPN The Magazine'' and helped create its section "The Jump". He also acted as the first anonymous "Answer Guy", a column that continued to run after he stopped working for the publication.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.espn.com/espnmag/story?id=3288256|title=Making It Up as We Go Along|work=ESPN the Magazine|date=March 11, 2008|access-date=2008-09-29}}</ref>

On November 7, 2009, he was presented with the "Courage in Media" Award by the Council on American–Islamic Relations for his book ''Zeitoun''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ca.cair.com/losangeles/news/announcing_courage_in_media_award_recipient_author_activist_dave_eggers|title=Announcing 'Courage in Media' Award Recipient: Author & Activist Dave Eggers|date=October 30, 2009|publisher=CAIR California|access-date=November 7, 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091106162516/http://ca.cair.com/losangeles/news/announcing_courage_in_media_award_recipient_author_activist_dave_eggers|archive-date=November 6, 2009}}</ref> ''Zeitoun'' was optioned by Jonathan Demme, who considered an animated film-rendition of the work. To Demme, it "felt like the first in-depth immersion I'd ever had through literature or film into the Muslim-American family. ... The moral was that they are like people of any other faith, and I hope our film, if we can get it made, will also be like that." Demme, quoted in early 2011, expressed confidence that when the script was finished, he would be able to find financing, perhaps even from a major studio.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/20/movies/in-a-better-world-and-other-films-on-islam.html?hpw|title=Rohter, Larry, "Hollywood Ignores East-West Exchange"|date=March 18, 2011|work=The New York Times|access-date=March 20, 2011}}</ref> However, in May 2014, ''The Playlist'' reported that the film was "percolat[ing] in development".<ref>{{cite news|last1=Jagernauth|first1=Kevin|title=Daniel Radcliffe to Star in Adaptation Of Dave Eggers' 'You Shall Know Our Velocity' Directed By Peter Sollett|url=http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/daniel-radcliffe-to-star-in-adaptation-of-dave-eggers-you-shall-know-our-velocity-directed-by-peter-sollett-20140516|work=Indiewire|access-date=March 22, 2016|date=May 16, 2014}}</ref> Demme died in April 2017, and the project has not been heard of since.

In the early 2010s, after six years without publishing substantive literary fiction following ''What is the What'', Eggers began a three-year streak of back-to-back novels, each broadly concerned with pressing social and political issues facing the United States and the world in the twenty-first century. Eggers published his novel of the Great Recession and the 2008 financial crisis, ''A Hologram for the King'', in July 2012. In October of that year, the novel was announced as a finalist for the National Book Award.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/national-book-awards-2012#.UHWre_mlpRg|title=2012 National Book Awards - National Book Foundation|website=Nationalbook.org|access-date=2017-08-23}}</ref>

Eggers followed this with ''The Circle'', which was released in October 2013. The novel tells the story of a young employee at a fictional technology company based in San Francisco. As she navigates her job, she begins to doubt her career when despite the company's seemingly benevolent innovations, a more sinister underlying agenda is ultimately revealed. Completing the productive spell, ''Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?'' was published in June 2014.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.randomhouse.com/book/246238/your-fathers-where-are-they-and-the-prophets-do-they-live-forever-by-dave-eggers|title=Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?|publisher=Random House|access-date=July 10, 2014}}</ref> In November 2015, ''Your Fathers, Where Are They ...'' was longlisted for the 2016 International Dublin Literary Award,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dublinliteraryaward.ie/nominees/your-fathers-where-are-they-and-the-prophets-do-they-live-forever/|title=Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever? - International Dublin Literary Award|publisher=Dublin Literary Award |access-date=2017-08-23}}</ref> Eggers's fifth nomination for the award following earlier nominations for ''The Circle'', ''A Hologram for the King'', ''The Wild Things'', and ''What is the What''.

In April 2016, Eggers visited Israel as part of a project by Breaking the Silence to write an article for a book on the Israeli occupation and the 50th anniversary of the Six-Day War.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Renowned Authors Learn About Occupation Firsthand in Breaking the Silence Tour |url=https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2016-04-18/ty-article/u-s-literary-stars-go-on-breaking-the-silence-tour/0000017f-f0fd-dc28-a17f-fcffa9330000 |last1=Zeveloff |first1=Naomi |author2-link=The Forward |date=2016-04-18 |work=Haaretz |last2=The Forward}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title=Leading authors to write about visiting Israel and the occupied territories |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/feb/22/leading-authors-to-write-about-visiting-israel-and-the-occupied-territories |last=Cain |first=Sian |date=2016-02-17 |work=The Guardian}}</ref> The book was edited by Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman and published under the title ''Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Confront the Occupation'' in June 2017.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.harpercollins.com/products/kingdom-of-olives-and-ash-michael-chabonayelet-waldman?variant=32207717433378 |title=Kingdom of Olives and Ash Writers Confront the Occupation By Michael Chabon, Ayelet Waldman |access-date=2022-08-18}}</ref>

In July 2016, Eggers published ''Heroes of the Frontier''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/05/books/dave-eggers-journeys-into-alaska-in-heroes-of-the-frontier.html|title=Dave Eggers Journeys Into Alaska in 'Heroes of the Frontier'|date=April 5, 2016|work=The New York Times}}</ref> Earlier the same year, a film adaptation of Eggers's earlier novel ''A Hologram for the King'' was released to mixed reviews and middling commercial performance. ''The Circle'', a film version of Eggers's book, starring Emma Watson, John Boyega, and Tom Hanks (who had starred in the ''Hologram for the King'' adaptation), was released in April 2017.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2016/10/tom-hanks-emma-watson-the-circle-april-2017-release-date-1201833008/|title=Tom Hanks & Emma Watson Thriller 'The Circle' Sets Spring 2017 Release|first=Anthony|last=D'Alessandro|date=October 7, 2016|website=Deadline Hollywood|access-date=2017-08-23}}</ref> Eggers followed ''Heroes of the Frontier'' with ''The Monk of Mokha'' (2018), another nonfiction biography in a similar vein to ''Zeitoun'', billed by the publishers as "the exhilarating true story of a young Yemeni American man, raised in San Francisco, who dreams of resurrecting the ancient art of Yemeni coffee but finds himself trapped in Sana'a by civil war."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/534987/the-monk-of-mokha-by-dave-eggers/9781101947319/|title=The Monk of Mokha by Dave Eggers - PenguinRandomHouse.com|website=PenguinRandomhouse.com}}</ref>

Eggers ended the decade by publishing two stylistically different novellas written concurrently. ''The Parade'', published by Knopf in March 2019, was a spare, minimalist novella reflecting Eggers's long-standing concerns with humanitarian issues, global development, and Western perceptions of the developing world. According to the advance blurb from the publisher, the novel concerns "two men, Western contractors sent to work far from home, tasked with paving a road to the capital in a dangerous and largely lawless country."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/597561/the-parade-by-dave-eggers/9780525655305/|title=The Parade by Dave Eggers - PenguinRandomHouse.com|website=PenguinRandomhouse.com}}</ref> Reviews were mixed: Positive notices included Andrew Motion's writing in ''The Guardian'' that "[Eggers'] novel may be sternly reduced in terms of its cast and language, but this leanness doesn't diminish the strength of its argument",<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/mar/27/the-parade-dave-eggers-review|title=The Parade by Dave Eggers review – a fable with a twist|newspaper=The Guardian|first=Andrew|last=Motion|date=March 27, 2019}}</ref> and Ron Charles in ''The Washington Post'' wrote that ''The Parade'' is "a story that conforms to the West's reductive attitudes about the developing world. Writers and politicians have long generalized about those individual cultures. A novel that lumps them together into a nameless, primitive nation only plays into that tendency."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/dave-eggerss-the-parade-is-a-heartbreaking-work-of-staggering-cynicism/2019/03/11/2da5975c-436f-11e9-90f0-0ccfeec87a61_story.html|title= Dave Eggers's 'The Parade' is a heartbreaking work of staggering cynicism|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=March 12, 2019}}</ref>

''The Parade'' was followed in November 2019 by another short novella, ''The Captain and the Glory'', billed by Eggers himself as an "allegorical satire"<ref>{{cite web|url=https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-ship-of-state-a-conversation-with-dave-eggers/|title=The Ship of State: A Conversation with Dave Eggers|date=November 22, 2019 |first=Tom|last=Lutz|work=Los Angeles Review of Books}}</ref> of the Trump administration.<ref name="mcsweeneys.net">{{Cite web|url=https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-interview-with-dave-eggers-about-his-new-novel-the-captain-and-the-glory|title=An Interview With Dave Eggers About His New Novel The Captain and the Glory|website=McSweeney's Internet Tendency|access-date=2019-11-20}}</ref> In an interview with the publishers Knopf published on the McSweeney's website, Eggers described the novel as "an attempt to understand this era by painting it in the gaudy and garish colors it really deserves... This is part farce, part parable, and I do hope, though the Captain bears more than a passing resemblance to Trump, that the book will be readable when Trump is gone. That's part of the reason I called it 'An entertainment' on the title page. It's a nod to Graham Greene but also the way I hope people will read it. It was cathartic to write, and I hope cathartic to read."<ref name="mcsweeneys.net" /> As with ''The Parade'', reviews were decidedly mixed, with much criticism noting that Eggers's satire struggled to keep up with or do justice to the events of the Trump era. In a review for the ''Financial Times'', Carl Wilkinson expressed bemusement about the purpose of the book and its intentions,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.ft.com/content/985f171a-11e3-11ea-a7e6-62bf4f9e548a |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221210/https://www.ft.com/content/985f171a-11e3-11ea-a7e6-62bf4f9e548a |archive-date=December 10, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=The Captain and the Glory by Dave Eggers — satire in the age of Trump|newspaper=Financial Times|date=December 6, 2019}}</ref> Hannah Barekat in ''The Spectator'' was critical of the "heavy handed" nature of the book's satire,<ref>{{cite web|title=Dave Eggers's satire on Trump is somewhat heavy-handed: The Captain and the Glory reviewed|url=https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/dave-eggers-s-satire-on-trump-is-somewhat-heavy-handed-the-captain-and-the-glory-reviewed|url-status=live|website=Spectator UK|date=December 12, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200729020507/https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/dave-eggers-s-satire-on-trump-is-somewhat-heavy-handed-the-captain-and-the-glory-reviewed |archive-date=2020-07-29 }}</ref> and ''The Guardian'',<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/dec/05/the-captain-and-the-glory-dave-eggers-review|title=The Captain and the Glory by Dave Eggers review – overfamiliar comedy|first=Sandra|last=Newman|newspaper=The Guardian|date=December 5, 2019}}</ref> ''The Times Literary Supplement'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/clowns-2/|title = Clowns - in Brief Review - in Brief}}</ref> and ''Kirkus Reviews''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/dave-eggers/the-captain-and-the-glory/|title=An ill-advised take on "The Emperor's New Clothes" that's limp when it isn't condescending|work=Kirkus|date=October 14, 2019}}</ref> also found the book wanting.

In 2021, his novella ''The Museum of Rain'' was published,<ref>{{cite book| title= The Museum of Rain: Amazon.co.uk: Eggers, Dave, Chang, Angel| id= {{ASIN|1952119359|country=uk}}}}</ref> and according to the McSweeney's website, the "elegiac" short story concerns "an American Army vet in his 70s who is asked to lead a group of young grand-nieces and grand-nephews on a walk through the hills of California's Central Coast. Walking toward a setting sun, their destination is The Museum of Rain, which may or may not still exist, and whose origin and meaning are elusive to all."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://store.mcsweeneys.net/products/the-museum-of-rain|title=The Museum of Rain|publisher=The McSweeney's Store}}</ref> ''The Museum of Rain'' was the first in a series of novellas that Eggers has published since 2021 under the banner 'The Forgetters', billed as a "grand experiment in serialized publishing" that "will someday be a probably-overlong novel"<ref>https://store.mcsweeneys.net/products/dave-eggers-s-the-forgetters-books-7-10?taxon_id=1</ref> Entries in the 'Forgetters' series published since 2021 to-date are ''The Honor of Your Presence'' (November 2023); ''Keeper of the Ornaments'', ''The Comebacker'' and ''Where The Candles are Kept'' (October 2024); ''Sanrevelle'' (August 2025); ''The Ocean is Everyone's But Not Yours'' (October 2025); and ''Uncle Patrick's Secessionist Breakfast'' (December 2025).<ref>https://store.mcsweeneys.net/products/dave-eggers-s-the-forgetters-books-7-10?taxon_id=1</ref>

The novel ''The Every'' was released in October 2021 as a follow-up to his 2013 novel ''The Circle''.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.thebookseller.com/news/hh-bags-eggers-lacerating-novel-1238282|title=Hamish Hamilton bags 'lacerating' Eggers follow-up to The Circle|magazine=The Bookseller|first=Ruth|last=Comerford|date=February 22, 2021}}</ref>

Eggers' next novel, ''Contrapposto'', is due for publication in June 2026.<ref>https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/768682/contrapposto-by-dave-eggers/</ref> The official synopsis describes the novel as "a sweeping novel about friendship, love, and the lifelong pursuit of art".<ref>https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/768682/contrapposto-by-dave-eggers/</ref>

=== McSweeney's and other ventures === Eggers is the founder of McSweeney's, an independent publishing house known for its literary journal ''Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern'', which he began in 1998. McSweeney's also publishes ''The Believer'', a monthly journal edited by Eggers's wife, Vendela Vida, and the now-defunct DVD magazine ''Wholphin''.

In addition to his literary pursuits, Eggers is a dedicated philanthropist. In 2002, he and educator Nínive Clements Calegari co-founded ''826 Valencia'', a nonprofit writing and tutoring center for children and young adults. The project has since expanded into a national organization, ''826 National'', with chapters in cities across the United States (Los Angeles, New York City, Chicago, Ann Arbor, Washington, and Boston).<ref>{{cite web |title=826 Chapters |url=http://www.826national.org/chapters |access-date=2007-02-20 |work=826 National}}</ref> In April 2010, under the umbrella of 826 National, Eggers launched ScholarMatch, a nonprofit organization that connects donors with students to make college more affordable.<ref>{{cite web |title=About ScholarMatch |url=https://scholarmatch.org/about/ |access-date=26 August 2018 |website=ScholarMatch|date=June 26, 2017 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Tucker |first1=Jill |date=21 May 2010 |title=ScholarMatch.org offers aid to needy students |url=https://www.sfgate.com/education/article/ScholarMatch-org-offers-aid-to-needy-students-3263469.php |access-date=26 August 2018 |work=SFGate}}</ref>

In 2006, he appeared at fundraising events, dubbed the Revenge of the Book–Eaters tour, to support these programs.<ref>{{cite web |year=2006 |title=Revenge of the Book–Eaters |url=http://www.bookeaters.org |access-date=2007-02-20 |work=Bookeaters.org}}</ref>

In September 2007, the Heinz Family Foundation awarded Eggers a $250,000 Heinz Award (given to recognize "extraordinary achievements by individuals") in the Arts and Humanities.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Heinz Awards :: Dave Eggers |url=https://heinzawards.org/pages/dave-eggers |access-date=2017-08-23 |website=Heinzawards.org}}</ref> In accordance with Eggers's wishes, the award money was given to 826 National and The Teacher Salary Project.<ref>{{cite news |date=September 14, 2007 |title="We never feel any sort of ownership" by John Freeman |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/sep/14/culture.features |access-date=2007-09-15 |work=Guardian Unlimited |location=London, UK}} An interview to Eggers</ref>

===Visual art work=== While at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Eggers attended art classes. After the publication of ''A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius'', he focused mainly on writing. Still, he publicly returned to visual art in 2010, with a solo gallery show at Electric Works in San Francisco, called "It Is Right to Draw Their Fur".<ref>{{Cite web|title=Electric Works: Current and Past Exhibitions|url=https://sfelectricworks.com/exhibitions|website=sfelectricworks.com|access-date=2015-10-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923163616/http://www.sfelectricworks.com/exhibitions/|archive-date=September 23, 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> The show featured many drawings of animals often paired with phrases, sometimes out of the Bible.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Dave Eggers: Insufferable Throne of God|url=http://www.nevadaart.org/exhibition/dave-eggers-insufferable-throne-of-god|website=nevadaart.org|access-date=2015-10-23}}</ref> In conjunction with that exhibition, McSweeney's published a catalog featuring 25 loose-leaf prints of the work featured in the show. In 2015, Eggers had his first solo museum exhibition at the Nevada Museum of Art called "The Insufferable Throne of God".<ref name=":0"/> Eggers is represented by Electric Works, a fine art gallery in San Francisco.

Outside of exhibitions, Eggers' visual art contributions include the following: * Provided album art for Austin rock group Paul Banks & the Carousels' album ''Yelling at the Sun''. * Designed the artwork for Thrice's album ''Vheissu''.<ref>{{Cite AV media notes|title=Vheissu |type=liner notes|publisher=Island Records|year=2005|title-link=Vheissu}}</ref>

=== Other === Ahead of the 2006 FIFA World Cup, Eggers wrote an essay about the U.S. national team and soccer in the United States for ''The Thinking Fan's Guide to the World Cup'', which contained essays about each competing team in the tournament and was published with aid from the journal ''Granta''. According to ''The San Francisco Chronicle'',<ref>{{cite web |date=2010-02-21 |title=Fresh Ink |url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/02/21/RVSI1C0TRJ.DTL&type=printable |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121210075738/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/02/21/RVSI1C0TRJ.DTL&type=printable |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 10, 2012 |access-date=2017-08-23 |website=Sfgate.com}}</ref> Eggers was rumored to be a possible candidate to be the new editor of ''The Paris Review'' before the Review selected Lorin Stein.

==Activism== Eggers's book ''The Every'' was released in 2021, but he refused to sell the hardcover edition on Amazon, limiting the release to independent bookstores only. Since its release, paperback editions of ''The Every'' have been available on Amazon.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Harris |first=Elizabeth A. |date=2021-06-09 |title=You Won't Find the Hardcover of Dave Eggers's Next Novel on Amazon |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/09/books/dave-eggers-every-new-novel-amazon-independent-bookstores.html |access-date=2023-02-12 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

In 2022, Eggers's books were among several titles banned in South Dakota schools because of sexual content.<ref>{{Cite web |title=High school book ban reveals hypocrisy, contradiction, culture of fear |url=https://www.kcrw.com/news/shows/press-play-with-madeleine-brand/zero-emissions-book-bans-gop-film-reviews/circle-dave-eggers-rapid-city |access-date=2023-02-12 |website=KCRW |date=August 25, 2022 |language=en}}</ref> Eggers went to South Dakota to speak to authorities and students and offered any student who wanted one of the banned books a copy for free via his website.<ref>{{Cite web |agency=Associated Press |title=Dave Eggers offers replacements for Rapid City School District's banned books |url=https://www.argusleader.com/story/news/2022/05/05/dave-eggers-the-circle-rapid-city-south-dakota-banned-books/9668805002/ |access-date=2023-02-12 |website=Argus Leader |language=en-US}}</ref>

In December 2022, Eggers traveled on behalf of PEN America to Kyiv, Ukraine.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Tolin |first=Lisa |date=2022-12-07 |title=PEN America delegation to Ukraine bears witness to bravery of writers and citizens |url=https://pen.org/pen-america-delegation-to-ukraine-bears-witness-to-bravery-of-writers-and-citizens/ |access-date=2023-02-12 |website=PEN America |language=en}}</ref> He published "The Profound Defiance of Daily Life in Kyiv" in ''The New Yorker'' based on his time in the war-torn country.<ref>{{Cite magazine |date=2023-01-06 |title=The Profound Defiance of Daily Life in Kyiv |url=https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/the-profound-defiance-of-daily-life-in-kyiv |access-date=2023-02-12 |magazine=The New Yorker |language=en-US}}</ref>

In May 2025, Eggers published a short story entitled ''Uncle Patrick's Secessionist Breakfast'' calling on California to secede from the USA and become an independent country. Eggers contends in the story that the new California wouldn't need a military to defend itself as Russia would never attack a member of NATO and China would never attack a Western nation.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2025-05-18 |title=Uncle Patrick's Secessionist Breakfast |url= https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2025/dave-eggers-short-story/ | access-date=2025-05-18 |newspaper=SF Chronicle|language=en-US}}</ref>

== Personal life == Eggers lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife, Vendela Vida, who is also a writer. The two met at a wedding in San Francisco in 1998 and married in 2003.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Crown |first=Sarah |date=2011-07-08 |title=A life in writing: Vendela Vida |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2011/jul/08/vendela-vida-interview-life-writing |access-date=2021-12-17 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Baby madness: Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida relish in literary success and new film 'Away We Go' |url=https://www2.ljworld.com/news/2009/jun/14/baby-madness-dave-eggers-and-vendela-vida-relish-l/ |access-date=2024-09-03 |website=LJWorld.com |language=en-US}}</ref> They have two children together.<ref>{{cite web |date=February 6, 2007 |title="Different worlds: The many lives — novelist, social activist, literary innovator, teacher — of Dave Eggers" by Susan Larson |url=http://www.nola.com/printer/printer.ssf?/base/living-0/117074735842110.xml&coll=1 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070317191621/http://www.nola.com/printer/printer.ssf?%2Fbase%2Fliving-0%2F117074735842110.xml&coll=1 |archive-date=March 17, 2007 |access-date=2007-02-22 |work=The Times-Picayune}}</ref> Eggers was the primary guardian of his youngest brother, Toph, with whom he co-authored children's books.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2009-05-01 |title=Eggers Together: The First-Ever Joint Interview with Dave and Toph Eggers |url=https://www.pastemagazine.com/books/dave-eggers/eggers-together-the-first-ever-joint-interview-wit/ |access-date=2023-02-12 |website=pastemagazine.com |language=en}}</ref>

== Awards and recognition == Eggers has won numerous annual awards for specific works as well as lifetime achievement awards. He also received an honorary doctorate degree.

=== 2000s === * 2000 – ''Time'' Best Book of the Year for ''A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius''<ref>{{Cite news |last=Gray |first=Paul |date=2000-12-07 |title=Best Books 2000 |url=https://content.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,91096,00.html |access-date=2024-08-31 |work=Time Magazine |language=en-US |issn=0040-781X}}</ref> * 2000 – ''Washington Post'' Best Book of the Year for ''A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius'' * 2000 – ''San Francisco Chronicle'' Best Book of the Year for ''A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius'' * 2000 – ''Los Angeles Times'' Best Book of the Year for ''A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius'' * 2000 – ''The New York Times Book Review'' Editors' Choice for ''A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius''<ref>{{Cite news |date=2000-12-03 |title=EDITORS' CHOICE |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/03/books/editors-choice.html |access-date=2024-08-31 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> * 2001 – Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction finalist for ''A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius'' * 2001 – American Academy of Arts and Letters's Addison Metcalf Award for ''A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius''<ref>Benson, H. (2001, April 12). Eggers, Wolff win American Academy Honors. ''San Francisco Chronicle''. <nowiki>https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/article/Eggers-Wolff-Win-American-Academy-Honors-2932403.php</nowiki></ref> * 2003 – Independent Book Award, Story Teller of the Year for ''You Shall Know Our Velocity''<ref>{{Cite web |title=2003 Independent Publisher Book Awards Results |url=https://secure.independentpublisher.com/article.php?page=741 |access-date=2024-08-31 |website=Independent Publisher}}</ref> * 2005 – Named one of ''Time'' magazine's 100 Most Influential People<ref>{{Cite web |title=The 2005 TIME 100 – TIME |url=https://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/completelist/0,29569,1972656,00.html |access-date=2024-09-02 |website=TIME.com |language=en-us}}</ref> * 2005 – Honorary Doctor of Letters from Brown University<ref>{{cite web |date=May 19, 2008 |title=Dave Eggers to deliver Brown University commencement address |url=https://today.brown.edu/articles/2008/05/eggers |access-date=December 4, 2009}}</ref> * 2006 – ''Salon'' Book Award for ''What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng''<ref>{{Cite web |last=Frey |first=Laura Miller, Hillary |date=2006-12-13 |title=Best fiction of 2006 |url=https://www.salon.com/2006/12/13/best_fiction_2/ |access-date=2024-08-31 |website=Salon |language=en}}</ref> * 2007 – The 13th Annual Heinz Award (Arts and Humanities)<ref>{{Cite web |last=Gelder |first=Lawrence Van |title=ARTS, BRIEFLY; 'Genius' Author Wins Heinz Award |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage-9C07E2D6123DF931A2575AC0A9619C8B63.html |access-date=2024-09-02 |website=query.nytimes.com |language=en}}</ref> * 2007 – National Book Critics Circle Award (Fiction) finalist for ''What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng'' * 2008 – International Dublin Literary Award longlist for ''What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng'' * 2008 – TED Prize<ref>{{Cite web |date=2007-11-21 |title=Announcing 2008 TED Prize winners {{!}} TED Blog |url=https://blog.ted.com/announcing_2008/ |access-date=2024-09-02 |language=en-US}}</ref> * 2008 – "50 Visionaries Who Are Changing the World" by ''Utne Reader''.<ref>{{cite web |date=October 13, 2008 |title=50 Visionaries who are changing your world |url=http://www.utne.com/2008-11-13/50-Visionaries-Who-Are-Changing-Your-World.aspx |access-date=2017-08-23 |website=Utne Reader}}</ref> * 2009 – Prix Médicis for ''What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng'' * 2009 – Literarian Award of the National Book Award<ref>{{Cite web |date=2009-10-14 |title=2009 National Book Awards Finalists Announced |url=https://www.bookweb.org/news/2009-national-book-awards-finalists-announced |access-date=2024-09-02 |website=the American Booksellers Association}}</ref> * 2009 – ''Los Angeles Times'' Book Prize (Innovator's Award)<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |date=2010-04-26 |title=Awards: L.A. Times Book Winners; Carnegie Medal Shortlist |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=1171 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221027160943/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=1171 |archive-date=2022-10-27 |access-date=2022-03-16 |website=Shelf Awareness}}</ref> * 2009 – ''Los Angeles Times'' Book Prize for Current Interest for ''Zeitoun<ref name=":2" />''

=== 2010s ===

* 2011 – International Dublin Literary Award longlist for ''The Wild Things''<ref>Complete list of eligible titles 2011. (2011). In ''THE NEWSLETTER OF THE INTERNATIONAL IMPAC DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD''. Dublin City Public Libraries and Archive. Retrieved September 5, 2024, from <nowiki>https://dublinliteraryaward.ie/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Fiction-Matters-2011.pdf</nowiki></ref> * 2012 – Commonwealth Club Inforum's 21st Century Award<ref>{{Cite web |title=Dave Eggers: INFORUM's 21st Century Award |url=https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2012-03-22/dave-eggers-inforums-21st-century-award |access-date=2024-09-02 |website=www.commonwealthclub.org |language=en}}</ref> * 2012 – Albatros Literaturpreis, with German translators Ulrike Wasel and Klaus Timmermann, for ''Zeitoun''<ref>[http://www.weser-kurier.de/Artikel/News/Kultur/Nachrichten/570743/Wegen-Grass%3A-US-Autor-bleibt-Preisverleihung-fern.html Wegen Grass: US-Autor bleibt Preisverleihung fern] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120414103941/http://www.weser-kurier.de/Artikel/News/Kultur/Nachrichten/570743/Wegen-Grass%3A-US-Autor-bleibt-Preisverleihung-fern.html|date=April 14, 2012}}, weser-kurier.de, 13 April 2012; accessed August 23, 2017.</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Suche |url=http://www.spiegel.de/suche/index.html?suchbegriff=Dave+Eggers |access-date=August 23, 2017 |website=Der Spiegel}}</ref> * 2012 – PEN Center USA Award of Honorfor ''Zeitoun''<ref>{{Cite web |date=2010-09-23 |title=Eggers, Hacker, DeLillo and Others Honored |url=https://pen.org/press-clip/eggers-hacker-delillo-and-others-honored/ |access-date=2024-09-03 |website=PEN America |language=en}}</ref> * 2012 – National Book Award (Fiction) Finalist for ''A Hologram for the King''<ref>{{cite web |date=October 10, 2012 |title=National Book Award Finalists Announced Today |url=http://reviews.libraryjournal.com/2012/10/in-the-bookroom/national-book-award-finalists-announced-today |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121206014159/http://reviews.libraryjournal.com/2012/10/in-the-bookroom/national-book-award-finalists-announced-today/ |archive-date=December 6, 2012 |access-date=November 15, 2012 |work=Library Journal}}</ref> * 2012 – ''Publishers Weekly'' Best Books 2012 list for ''A Hologram for the King''<ref>{{cite web |title=Best Books of 2012 - Publishers Weekly |url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/best-books/2012/fiction#book/book-16 |access-date=2017-08-23 |website=Publishersweekly.com}}</ref> * 2012 – ''The New York Times'' 100 Notable Books of 2012 List (Fiction & Poetry) for ''A Hologram for the King''<ref>{{Cite news |date=2012-11-27 |title=100 Notable Books of 2012 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/02/books/review/100-notable-books-of-2012.html |access-date=2024-08-31 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> * 2012 – ''The New York Times'' 10 Best Books of 2012 list, Fiction for ''A Hologram for the King''<ref>{{Cite news |date=2012-11-30 |title=The 10 Best Books of 2012 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/09/books/review/10-best-books-of-2012.html |access-date=2024-08-31 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> * 2013 – ''Smithsonian'' magazine's American Ingenuity Award (Social Progress)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Upending the Narrative of the Great Man of History |url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/upending-the-narrative-of-the-great-man-of-history-180947636/|first=Eliza|last=Griswold |access-date=2024-09-03 |website=Smithsonian Magazine |language=en}}</ref> * 2013 – California Book Award (Fiction) finalist for ''A Hologram for the King''<ref>{{cite web |title=California Book Awards - Commonwealth Club |url=http://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/special-events/california-book-awards |access-date=2017-08-23 |website=Commonwealthclub.org}}</ref> * 2014 – International Dublin Literary Award longlist for ''A Hologram for the King''<ref>{{Cite web |last=IGO |date=2023-10-26 |title=A Hologram for the King |url=https://dublinliteraryaward.ie/the-library/books/a-hologram-for-the-king/ |access-date=2024-08-31 |website=Dublin Literary Award |language=en-US}} '''The Circle (2013)''' * International Dublin Literary Award, longlist (2015)<nowiki><ref></nowiki>{{Cite web |last=IGO |date=2019-09-03 |title=The Circle |url=https://dublinliteraryaward.ie/the-library/books/the-circle/ |access-date=2024-08-31 |website=Dublin Literary Award |language=en-US}}</ref> * 2015 – Inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters<ref>{{Cite web |title=Membership |url=https://www.artsandletters.org/membership |access-date=2024-09-03 |website=American Academy of Arts and Letters |language=en}}</ref> * 2015 – International Dublin Literary Award longlist for The Circle<ref>{{Cite web |last=IGO |date=2019-09-03 |title=The Circle |url=https://dublinliteraryaward.ie/the-library/books/the-circle/ |access-date=2024-09-05 |website=Dublin Literary Award |language=en-US}}</ref> * 2016 – International Dublin Literary Award shortlist for ''Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?''<ref>{{Cite web |last=IGO |date=2019-09-03 |title=Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever? |url=https://dublinliteraryaward.ie/the-library/books/your-fathers-where-are-they-and-the-prophets-do-they-live-forever/ |access-date=2024-08-31 |website=Dublin Literary Award |language=en-US}}</ref>

=== 2020s === * 2024 – Newbery Medal for ''The Eyes and the Impossible''<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Roback |first1=Diane |last2=Kantor |first2=Emma |last3=Jones {{!}} |first3=Iyana |title=Eggers, Harrison, King Win 2024 Newbery, Caldecott, Printz Awards |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-industry-news/article/94147-eggers-harrison-king-win-2024-newbery-caldecott-printz-awards.html |access-date=2024-01-24 |website=PublishersWeekly.com |language=en}}</ref>

== Works ==

=== Fiction === ==== Novels ====

* {{cite book  |title=Mistakes We Knew We Were Making |title-link= |publisher=Vintage Books |year=2001 |isbn=9780375725784}} * {{cite book  |title=You Shall Know Our Velocity |title-link=You Shall Know Our Velocity |date= |publisher=Vintage Books |year=2002 |isbn=9780970335555 |edition= |publication-date=}} * {{cite book  |title=Sacrament |title-link=You Shall Know Our Velocity |publisher=Vintage Books |year=2003 |isbn=9781932416008}} * {{cite book  |title=The Unforbidden Is Compulsory; or, Optimism |title-link= |date=2004 |publisher=McSweeney's |year= |isbn=9781932416107 |language=en}} * {{cite book  |title=What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng |title-link=What Is the What |publisher=McSweeney's |year=2006 |isbn=9781932416640}} * {{cite book  |title=The Wild Things |title-link=The Wild Things |publisher=McSweeney's |year=2009 |isbn=9781934781616}} * {{cite book  |title=A Hologram for the King |title-link=A Hologram for the King |publisher=McSweeney's Books |year=2012 |isbn=9781936365746}} * {{cite book  |title=The Circle |title-link=The Circle (Eggers novel) |publisher=Alfred A. Knopf |year=2013 |isbn=9780385351393}} * {{cite book  |title=Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever? |title-link=Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever? |publisher=Alfred A. Knopf, McSweeney's |year=2014 |isbn=9781101874196}} * {{cite book  |title=Heroes of the Frontier |title-link=Heroes of the Frontier |publisher=Alfred A. Knopf |year=2016 |isbn=9780451493804}} * {{cite book  |title=The Parade |title-link= |date=2019 |publisher=Alfred A. Knopf |year= |isbn=9780525655305}} * {{cite book  |title=The Captain and the Glory |title-link=The Captain and the Glory: An Entertainment |publisher=Alfred A. Knopf |year=2019 |isbn=9780525659082}} * {{cite book  |title=The Every |title-link=The Every |publisher=Vintage Books |year=2021 |isbn=9780593315347}}

==== Short stories ====

===== Collections ===== * {{cite book |title=How We Are Hungry |title-link=How We Are Hungry |date=2004 |publisher= McSweeney's Books|isbn=9781932416138}} * {{cite book |title=Short Short Stories (Pocket Penguins series) |title-link= |date=2005 |publisher=Penguin |isbn=9780141023083}} * {{cite book |title=How the water feels to the fishes |others=A part of ''One Hundred and Forty-Five Stories in a Small Box'' |date=2007 |publisher= McSweeneys Books|isbn=9781932416824| last1=Eggers | first1=Dave | display-authors=0}}

====== The Forgetters series ====== * {{cite book |title=The Museum of Rain |title-link= |date=2021 |publisher= McSweeney's|isbn=9781952119354}} * {{cite book |title=The Honor of Your Presence |title-link= |date=2023 |publisher= McSweeney's|isbn= 9781952119903}} * {{cite book |title=The Keeper of the Ornaments |title-link= |date=2024 |publisher= McSweeney's|isbn=9781963270006}} * {{cite book |title=The Comebacker |title-link= |date=2024 |publisher= McSweeney's|isbn=9781963270013}} * {{cite book |title=Where the Candles Are Kept |title-link= |date=2024 |publisher= McSweeney's|isbn=9781963270037}} * {{cite book |title=The Ocean Is Everyone's But It Is Not Yours |title-link= |date=2025 |publisher= McSweeney's|isbn=9781963270020}} * {{cite book |title=Sanrevelle |title-link= |date=2025 |publisher= McSweeney's|isbn=9781963270419}} * {{cite book |title=Uncle Patrick's Secessionist Breakfast |title-link= |date=2025 |publisher= McSweeney's|isbn=9781963270433}} * {{cite book |title=The Minister of Color and Light |title-link= |date=2026 |publisher= McSweeney's|isbn=1963270428}}

==== Children's fiction ==== * {{Cite book |title=Hello Children |date=2006 |publisher=McSweeney's |isbn=9781932416329}} * {{Cite book |title=When Marlana Pulled a Thread |date=2011 |publisher=McSweeney's |isbn=9781936365425}} * {{Cite book |title=The story of Captain Nemo |date=2013 |publisher=Pushkin Children's Books |others=Illustrated by Fabian Negrin. Created by Jules Verne |isbn=9781782690184 |series=Save the Story| last1=Eggers | first1=Dave | display-authors=0}} * {{Cite book |title=The Bridge Will Not Be Gray |date=2015 |publisher=McSweeney's |others=Illustrated by Tucker Nichols |isbn=9781940450476| last1=Eggers | first1=Dave | display-authors=0}} * {{Cite book |title=Her Right Foot |date=2017 |publisher=Chronicle Books |others=Illustrated by Shawn Harris |isbn=9781452162812| last1=Eggers | first1=Dave | display-authors=0}} * {{Cite book |title=The Lifters |date=2018 |publisher=Alfred A. Knopf |others=Illustrated by Aaron Renier |isbn=9781524764166| last1=Eggers | first1=Dave | display-authors=0}} * {{Cite book |title=What Can a Citizen Do? |date=2018 |publisher=Chronicle Books |others=Illustrated by Shawn Harris |isbn=9781452173139| last1=Eggers | first1=Dave | display-authors=0}} * {{Cite book |title=Abner & Ian Get Right-Side Up |date=2019 |publisher=Little, Brown and Company |others=Illustrated by Laura Park |isbn=9780316485869| last1=Eggers | first1=Dave | display-authors=0}} * {{Cite book |title=Most of the Better Natural Things in the World |date=2019 |publisher=Chronicle Books |others=Illustrated by Angel Chang |isbn=9781452162829| last1=Eggers | first1=Dave | display-authors=0}} * {{Cite book |title=Tomorrow Most Likely |date=2019 |publisher=Chronicle Books |others=Illustrated by Lane Smith |isbn=9781452172781| last1=Eggers | first1=Dave | display-authors=0}} * {{Cite book |title=Faraway Things |date=2021 |publisher=Little, Brown and Company |others=Illustrated by Kelly Murphy |isbn=9780316492195| last1=Eggers | first1=Dave | display-authors=0}} * {{Cite book |title=We Became Jaguars |date=2021 |publisher=Chronicle Books |others=Illustrated by Woodrow White |isbn=9781452183930| last1=Eggers | first1=Dave | display-authors=0}} * {{Cite book |title=The Eyes and the Impossible |title-link=The Eyes and the Impossible |date=2023 |publisher=Alfred A. Knopf |others=Illustrated by Shawn Harris |isbn=9781524764203| last1=Eggers | first1=Dave | display-authors=0}} * {{Cite book |title=Moving the Millers' Minnie Moore Mine Mansion |date=2023 |publisher=Candlewick Press |others=Illustrated by Júlia Sardà |isbn=9781536215885| last1=Eggers | first1=Dave | display-authors=0}} * {{Cite book |title=Soren's Seventh Song |date=2024 |publisher=Cameron Kids |others=Illustrated by Mark Hoffmann |isbn=9781951836733| last1=Eggers | first1=Dave | display-authors=0}} * {{Cite book |title=The Eyes, the Fire & the Avalanche Kingdom |date=2026 |publisher=Alfred A. Knopf |others=Illustrated by Shawn Harris |isbn=9798217028566| last1=Eggers | first1=Dave | display-authors=0}}

===== The Haggis-on-Whey World of Unbelievable Brilliance series ===== Eggers and his brother, Christopher, authored this series using the joint pseudonym Benny and Doris Haggis-on-Whey.

* {{Cite book |title=Giraffes? Giraffes! |date=2003 |publisher=Simon & Schuster |isbn=9780743267267}} * {{Cite book |title=Your Disgusting Head|date=2004 |publisher=Simon & Schuster |isbn=9780743267250}} * {{Cite book |title=Animals of the Ocean: In particular the Giant Squid |date=2006 |publisher=McSweeney's |isbn=9781932416398}} * {{Cite book |title=Cold fusion : colder than ever before; better than hot fusion or even fission |date=2008 |publisher=McSweeneys |isbn=9781934781210}} * {{Cite book |title=Children and the Tundra |date=2014 |publisher=McSweeney's |isbn=9781940450049}}

=== Nonfiction === * {{cite book  |title=A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius |title-link=A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius |publisher=Simon & Schuster |year=2000 |isbn=9780684863474}} * {{Cite book |title=Teachers have it easy : the big sacrifices and small salaries of America's teachers |title-link=Teacher Salary Project |date=2005 |publisher=New Press |others=Written with Daniel Moulthrop and Nínive Clements Calegari |isbn=9781565849556| last1=Eggers | first1=Dave | display-authors=0}} * {{Cite book |title=Zeitoun |title-link=Zeitoun (book) |date=2009 |publisher=McSweeney's |isbn=9781934781630}} * {{Cite book |title=It Is Right to Draw Their Fur: Animal Renderings |date=2010 |publisher=McSweeney's |isbn=9781934781982}} * {{Cite book |title=Visitants |date=2013 |publisher=McSweeneys |isbn=9781938073243}} * {{Cite book |title=Ungrateful Mammals |date=2017 |publisher=Abrams Books |others=Contributions by Natasha Boas |isbn=9781419724633| last1=Eggers | first1=Dave | display-authors=0}} * {{Cite book |title=The Monk of Mokha |date=2018 |publisher=Alfred A. Knopf |isbn=9781101947319}}

=== Photobooks === * {{Cite book |title=Understanding the Sky |date=2016 |publisher=McSweeney's |isbn=9781944211257}}

=== Works edited/prefaced/contributed === * {{Cite book |last=Kreuter |first=Holly |title=Drama in the Desert: The Sights and Sounds of Burning Man |date=2002 |publisher=Raised Barn Press |others=Foreword by Dave Eggers |isbn=9780972178907}} * {{Cite book |last=Eggers |first=Dave |title=Stories Upon Stories |date=2016 |publisher=McSweeney's |isbn=9781940450018 |chapter=Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea}} * {{Cite book |last=Hawkins |first=T.S. |title=Some Recollections from a Busy Life: The Forgotten Story of the Real Town of Hollister, California |date=2016 |publisher=McSweeney's |others=A reprint of an autobiography by Dave Eggers' great-great-great-grandfather, originally published in 1913. Introduction by Dave Eggers |isbn=9781940450896}}

==== Voice of Witness series ==== Voice of Witness, founded by Dave Eggers and Lola Vollen, is a non-profit organization that uses oral history to illuminate contemporary human rights crises in the U.S. and around the world through an oral history book series and an education program. M.D. Mimi Lok joined in 2008 as Executive Director & Executive Editor.

* {{Cite book |title=Surviving justice : America's wrongfully convicted and exonerated|date=2005 |publisher=McSweeney's |isbn=9781932416237|others=Introduction by Scott Turow|editor-last=Eggers|editor-first=Dave|editor-last2=Vollen|editor-first2=Lola}} * {{Cite book |title=The voice of witness reader : ten years of amplifying unheard voices |date=2015 |publisher=McSweeney's |isbn=9781940450773|editor-last=Eggers|editor-first=Dave}} * {{Cite book |title=The Voice of witness reader : the first ten |date=2023 |publisher=Haymarket Books |isbn=9781642595390|editor-last=Eggers|editor-first=Dave}}

=== Film contributions === * {{Cite AV media |title=Away We Go |date=2009 |type=Motion picture |others=Screenplay by Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida}} * {{Cite AV media |title=Where the Wild Things Are |date=2009 |type=Motion picture |others=Screenplay by Dave Eggers and director Spike Jonze}} * {{Cite AV media |title=Promised Land |date=2012 |type=Motion picture |others=Story by Dave Eggers. Screenplay by Matt Damon and John Krasinski}} * {{Cite AV media |title=A Hologram for the King |date=2016 |type=Motion picture |others=Directed by Tom Tykwer. Story based on Egger's novel ''A Hologram for the King''}} * {{Cite AV media |title=Your Mother and I (a short film) |date=2016 |type= |others=Screenplay by Dave Eggers, Julia Jackman, and Anna Maguire. Story based on Eggers’ short story "Your Mother and I"}}<ref>{{Citation |last=Maguire |first=Anna |title=Your Mother and I |date=2016-11-06 |type=Short, Comedy, Drama |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5585414/ |access-date=2024-09-05 |others=Don McKellar, Julia Sarah Stone, Clive Walton |publisher=Low Sky Productions, Meraki Moving Pictures, Paper Bag Productions}}</ref> * {{Cite AV media |title=The Circle |date=2017 |type=Motion picture |others=Screenplay by Dave Eggers and James Ponsoldt. Story based on Egger's novel ''The Circle''. Performed by Emma Watson, Tom Hanks, and John Boyega}}

=== Music contributions ===

* Eggers can be heard talking with Spike Jonze during "The Horrible Fanfare/Landslide/Exoskeleton", the final track on Beck's 2006 album ''The Information''. The third section of the track features Eggers and Jonze responding to Beck's question, "What would the ultimate record that ever could possibly be made sound like?"<ref>{{cite news |date=September 21, 2006 |title="I'm always in danger of being dismissed as a clown" by Chris Salmon |url=https://www.theguardian.com/arts/features/story/0,,1877277,00.html |access-date=2007-02-21 |work=Guardian Unlimited |location=London}}</ref> * Eggers contributed lyrics to the song "The Ghost of Rita Gonzolo" on One Ring Zero's album ''As Smart as We Are'' (2004).<ref name="The Author Project2">{{cite web |title=As Smart As We Are (The Author Project) |url=http://www.oneringzero.com/?page_id=37 |access-date=January 5, 2018 |publisher=One Ring Zero}}</ref> * Eggers wrote the lyrics for the song "[https://open.spotify.com/track/3R2XVZJGHoCpSHr9hJuFnE?si=4e9cc1f3144e40cc The Clown]" for his project 30 Days, 30 Songs with music by Guster's Ryan Miller.

=== Short fiction === {| class="wikitable" |+ |- ! Title !! Publication !! Collected in |- | "After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned" || ''Speaking with the Angel'' (2000) || ''How We Are Hungry'' |- | "Where Were We" || ''The New Yorker'' (August 12, 2002) || from ''You Shall Know Our Velocity'' |- | "Up the Mountain Coming Down Slowly" || ''McSweeney's'' 10 (2002) || ''How We Are Hungry'' |- | "Marrakesh" || ''Punk Planet'' 55 (May–June 2003) || from ''You Shall Know Our Velocity'' |- | "The Only Meaning of the Oil-Wet Water" || ''Zoetrope: All-Story'' 7.2 (Summer 2003) || ''How We Are Hungry'' |- | "Something Might Plummet. Something Might Soar" || ''The Guardian'' (August 2, 2003) || ''Best American Nonrequired Reading 2003'' |- | "Climbing to the Window, Pretending to Dance" aka "Measuring the Jump" || ''The New Yorker'' (September 1, 2003) || rowspan=4| ''How We Are Hungry'' |- | "Notes for a Story of a Man Who Will Not Die Alone" || ''Ninth Letter'' 1 (Spring-Summer 2004) |- | "About the Man Who Began Flying After Meeting Her" || ''The Guardian'' (March 27, 2004) |- | "On Wanting to Have Three Walls Up Before She Gets Home" || ''The Guardian'' (April 3, 2004) |- | "You'll Have to Save That for Another Time" || ''The Guardian'' (April 10, 2004) || ''Short Short Stories'' |- | "What It Means When a Crowd in a Faraway Nation Takes a Soldier Representing Your Own Nation, Shoots Him, Drags Him from His Vehicle and Then Mutilates Him in the Dust" || ''The Guardian'' (April 17, 2004) || ''How We Are Hungry'' |- | "The Young Woman Appreciates Having Food Even Though She Has Never Gone Hungry" || ''The Guardian'' (April 24, 2004) || - |- | "On Making Someone a Good Man by Calling Him a Good Man" || ''The Guardian'' (May 1, 2004) || ''Short Short Stories'' |- | "Naveed" aka "Stephanie Can't Do 13" || ''The Guardian'' (May 8, 2004) || ''How We Are Hungry'' |- | "Madeline Smiles at the Thought" || ''The Guardian'' (May 15, 2004) || - |- | "Woman Waiting to Take a Photo" || ''The Guardian'' (May 22, 2004) || - |- | "When He Started Saying 'I Appreciate It' After 'Thank You'" || ''The Guardian'' (May 29, 2004) || rowspan=3| ''Short Short Stories'' |- | "You Know How to Spell Elijah" || ''The Guardian'' (June 5, 2004) |- | "The Definition of Reg" || ''The Guardian'' (June 12, 2004) |- | "She Waits, Seething, Blooming" || ''The Guardian'' (June 19, 2004) || ''How We Are Hungry'' |- | "On Seeing Bob Balaban in Person Twice in One Week" || ''The Guardian'' (June 26, 2004) || ''Short Short Stories'' |- | "Older Man Tries Not to Groan in an Overly Desperate Way While Holding His Younger Girlfriend" || ''The Guardian'' (July 3, 2004) || - |- | "How Do the Koreans Feel About the Germans?" || ''The Guardian'' (July 10, 2004) || rowspan=6| ''Short Short Stories'' |- | "The Heat and Eduardo, Part I" || ''The Guardian'' (July 17, 2004) |- | "The Heat and Eduardo, Part II" || ''The Guardian'' (July 24, 2004) |- | "Of Gretchen and de Gaulle" aka "Gretchen the Squid" || ''The Guardian'' (July 31, 2004) |- | "They Decide to Have No More Death" || ''The Guardian'' (August 7, 2004) |- | "The Weird Wife" || ''The Guardian'' (August 14, 2004) |- | "The Woman Wondered How People Did It" || ''The Guardian'' (August 21, 2004) || - |- | "When They Learned to Yelp" || ''The Guardian'' (August 28, 2004) || ''How We Are Hungry'' |- | "The Boy They Didn't Take Pictures Of" || ''The Guardian'' (September 4, 2004) || - |- | "Woman, Foghorn" || ''The Guardian'' (September 11, 2004) || rowspan=2| ''Short Short Stories'' |- | "How Long It Took" || ''The Guardian'' (September 18, 2004) |- | "Your Mother and I" || ''h2so4'' 19 (Autumn-Winter 2004) || ''How We Are Hungry'' |- | "But Is That Irony or Something Else?" || ''The Guardian'' (September 25, 2004) || - |- | "A Whispered Hello" || ''The Guardian'' (October 2, 2004) || - |- | "Sleep to Dreamier Sleep Be Wed" || ''The Guardian'' (October 9, 16 & 23, 2004) || rowspan=2| ''Short Short Stories'' |- | "She Needed More Nuance" || ''The Guardian'' (October 30, 2004) |- | "Alameda" || ''The Guardian'' (November 6, 2004) || - |- | "Georgia Is Lost" aka "Rodney Is Looking for His Daughter" || ''The Guardian'' (November 13, 2004) || rowspan=5| ''Short Short Stories'' |- | "This Flight Attendant (Gary, Is It?) Is on Fire!" || ''The Guardian'' (November 20, 2004) |- | "True Story, 1986, Midwest, USA, Tuesday" || ''The Guardian'' (November 27, 2004) |- | "This Certain Song" aka "Catchy, But Not Danceable" || ''The Guardian'' (December 4, 2004) |- | "A Circle Like Some Circles" aka "A Perfect Circle" || ''The Guardian'' (December 11, 2004) |- | "Another" || rowspan=3| ''How We Are Hungry'' (2004) || rowspan=3| ''How We Are Hungry'' |- | "Quiet" |- | "There Are Some Things He Should Keep to Himself" |- | "It Is Finally Time to Tell the Story" || ''The Guardian'' (January 1, 2005) || rowspan=2| ''Short Short Stories'' |- | "What the Water Feels Like to the Fishes" || ''The Guardian'' (January 8, 2005) |- | "The End of Tejada" || ''The Guardian'' (January 15, 2005) || - |- | "Roderick Hopes" || ''The Guardian'' (January 22, 2005) || ''Short Short Stories'' |- | "Should You Lie About Having Read That Book?" || ''The Guardian'' (January 29, 2005) || - |- | "Tracy and Her Loyalty" || ''The Guardian'' (February 5, 2005) || - |- | "A No on Debussy" || ''The Guardian'' (February 12, 2005) || - |- | "Outside This One Time" || ''The Guardian'' (February 19, 2005) || - |- | "I Will Always Love You" || ''The Guardian'' (February 26, 2005) || - |- | "No Safe Harbor" || ''The Guardian'' (March 5, 2005) || - |- | "Unlikely Meetings, Part XXIV" || ''The Guardian'' (March 12, 2005) || - |- | "Fecal Matter of the USA" || ''The Guardian'' (March 19, 2005) || - |- | "The Immortal Fly Is Tired" || ''The Guardian'' (March 26, 2005) || - |- | "These Certain Young People" || ''The Guardian'' (April 2, 2005) || - |- | "Types of Pain, Their Duration and Intentions" || ''The Guardian'' (April 9, 2005) || - |- | "Accident" || ''The Guardian'' (April 16, 2005) || - |- | "We Can Work It Out" || ''The Guardian'' (April 23, 2005) || - |- | "When the Fishes Were Stopped by a Policeman" || ''The Guardian'' (April 30, 2005) || - |- | "These Two Cousins" || ''The Guardian'' (May 7, 2005) || - |- | "About the Man Uglier and Scarier Than Ratzinger" || ''The Guardian'' (May 14, 2005) || - |- | "True Story, Kansas City, 2003" || ''The Guardian'' (May 21, 2005) || - |- | "And Built Like a Little Bodybuilder" || ''The Guardian'' (May 28, 2005) || - |- | "The End Is Nigh" || ''The Guardian'' (June 4, 2005) || - |- | "The Battle Between the Giant Squid and the Bears of Yosemite" || ''The Guardian'' (June 11, 2005) || - |- | "Theo" || ''The Book of Other People'' (2007) || - |- | "A Fork Brought Along" || ''The Guardian'' (August 1, 2009) || - |- | "Max at Sea" || ''The New Yorker'' (August 24, 2009) || from ''The Wild Things'' |- | "Who Knocks?" || ''Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury'' (2012) || - |- | "We Like You So Much and Want to Know You Better" || ''The New York Times'' (September 22, 2013) || from ''The Circle'' |- | "The Alaska of Giants and Gods" || ''The New Yorker'' (November 17, 2014) || from ''Heroes of the Frontier'' |- | "The Museum of Rain" || ''The Museum of Rain'' (2021) || - |- | "Where the Candles Are Kept" || ''Small Odysseys: Selected Shorts Presents 35 New Stories'' (2022) || - |- | "The Honor of Your Presence" || ''One Story'' 302 (June 22, 2023) || - |- | "The Comebacker" || ''The Atlantic'' (September 2023) || - |- | "The Keeper of the Ornaments" || ''The Keeper of the Ornaments'' (2024) || - |- |}

==References== {{Reflist}}

==Further reading== ===Criticism and interpretation=== * Altes, Liesbeth Korthals (2008) "Sincerity, Reliability, and Other Ironies — Notes on Dave Eggers' ''A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius''" in ''Narrative Unreliability in the Twentieth-Century First-Person Novel'' (eds. Elke D'hoker and Gunther Martens). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. * Boxall, Peter. ''Twenty-First-Century Fiction: A Critical Introduction''. Cambridge University Press, 2013. [contains discussion of ''What is the What''] * D'Amore, Jonathan. ''American Authorship and Autobiographical Narrative: Mailer, Wideman, Eggers''. Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. [joint study on works of Norman Mailer, John Edgar Wideman, and Eggers; contains discussion of ''... Staggering Genius'', "Mistakes We Knew We Were Making", ''You Shall Know Our Velocity'', and ''What is the What''] * den Dulk, Allard. ''Existentialist Engagement in Wallace, Eggers and Foer''. Bloomsbury, 2014. [joint study on the works of Eggers, David Foster Wallace, and Jonathan Safran Foer; contains discussion of ''... Staggering Genius'', ''You Shall Know Our Velocity'' and ''The Circle''] * Funk, Wolfgang. ''The Literature of Reconstruction: American Literature in the New Millennium''. Bloomsbury. 2015 [contains a chapter on 'reconstructing the author' in ''A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius''] * Galow, Timothy W. ''Understanding Dave Eggers''. University of South Carolina Press. 2014. * Giles, Paul. ''The Global Remapping of American Literature''. Princeton University Press, 2011 [contains discussion of ''... Staggering Genius'' and ''What is the What''] * Grassian, Daniel. ''Hybrid Fictions: American Literature and Generation X''. McFarland, 2003 [contains discussion of ''A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius''] * Hamilton, Caroline D. "Blank Looks: Reality TV and Memoir in ''A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius''. ''Australasian Journal of American Studies'', vol.28, no.2. (December 2009), pp.31-46 * Hamilton, Caroline D. ''One Man Zeitgeist: Dave Eggers, Publishing and Publicity''. Bloomsbury, 2012. * Holland, Mark K. ''Succeeding Postmodernism: Language and Humanism in Contemporary American Literature''. Bloomsbury, 2013. [contains discussion of ''... Staggering Genius''] * Jensen, Mikkel (2014) "A Note on a Title: ''A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius''" in ''The Explicator''. Volume 72, Issue 2.[http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00144940.2014.905434#.U4dk7_mqkms] * Mosseau, Robert. "Connecting Travel Writing, Bildungsroman, and Therapeutic Culture in Dave Eggers's Literature" in Lanzendorfer, Tim [ed.] ''The Poetics of Genre in the Contemporary Novel''. Lexington Books, 2015. [contains discussion of ''You Shall Know Our Velocity'' and ''A Hologram for the King''] * Nicol, Bran (2006) "'The Memoir as Self-Destruction': Dave Eggers's ''A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius''" in ''Modern Confessional Writing'' (ed. Jo Gill). New York: Routledge. * Peek, Michelle. "Humanitarian Narrative and Posthumanist Critique: Dave Eggers's ''What is the What''. ''Biography''. 35.1 (Winter, 2012), pp.115-136. * Pignagnoli, Virginia. "Sincerity, Sharing, and Authorial Discourses on the Fiction/Nonfiction Distinction: The Case of Dave Eggers's ''You Shall Know Our Velocity''" in Lanzendorfer, Tim [ed.] ''The Poetics of Genre in the Contemporary Novel''. Lexington Books, 2015. [contains discussion of ''You Shall Know Our Velocity'' and ''The Circle''] *Sommerfeld, Stephanie. "Nature Revisited: Postironic Sublimity in Dave Eggers" in Pierce, Gillian B. [ed.] ''The Sublime Today: Contemporary Readings in the Aesthetic''. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012. 67–101. * Timmer, Nicoline. ''Do You Feel it Too? The Post-Postmodern Syndrome in American Fiction at the Turn of the Millennium''. Rodopi, 2010. [contains discussion of ... ''Staggering Genius''] * Varvogli, Aliki. ''Travel and Dislocation in Contemporary American Fiction''. Routledge, 2012. [Contains discussion of ''What Is the What'' and ''You Shall Know Our Velocity'']

==External links== {{Sister project links|d=Q589497|c=category:Dave Eggers|n=no|b=no|v=no|voy=no|wikt=no|s=no|m=no|mw=no|species=no}} * {{official website}} * {{ISFDB name|52561}} * [http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/eggers_dave Dave Eggers] in ''The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction'' * [https://web.archive.org/web/20050423211156/http://www.mcsweeneys.net/authorpages/eggers/eggers.html Author page on the McSweeney's website] (features a detailed bibliography) * [http://www.826national.org/ 826 National] * {{IMDb name|1101630}}

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