Dave Eggers
Autor/a de A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and Mistakes We Knew We Were Making
Sobre l'autor
Dave Eggers was born on March 12th, 1970, in Boston, Massachusetts. His family moved to Lake Forest, Illinois when he was a child. Eggers attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, until his parents' deaths in 1991 and 1992. The loss left him responsible for his eight-year-old brother mostra'n més and later became the inspiration for his highly acclaimed memoir "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius". Published in 2000, the memoir was nominated for a nonfiction Pulitzer the following year. Eggers edits the popular "The Best American Nonrequired Reading" published annually. In 1998, he founded the independent publishing house, McSweeney's which publishes a variety of magazines and literary journals. Eggers has also opened several nonprofit writing centers for high school students across the United States. Eggers has written several novels and his title, A Hologram for the King, was a finalist for the 2012 National Book Award. His most recent work of fiction, entitled The Circle, was published in 2013. His recent nonfiction books are The Monk of Mokha (January 2018) and What Can a Citizen Do? (Illustrated by Shawn Harris)(September 2018). (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
Nota de desambiguació:
(eng) Please do not combine this author page with "Doris Haggis-On-Whey" books. Dr. and Mr. Doris Haggis-on-Whey are a joint pseudonym of Dave Eggers and his brother Christopher Eggers. Please note that reviews of The Wild Things and Zeitoun have become confused on the Wild Things review thread.
Crèdit de la imatge: Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Sèrie
Obres de Dave Eggers
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and Mistakes We Knew We Were Making (2000) 13,397 exemplars
McSweeney's Issue 13 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): The Comics Issue (2004) — Editor — 1,290 exemplars
Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans: The Best of McSweeney's Humor Category (2004) — Editor & Introduction — 862 exemplars
McSweeney's Issue 18 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) / Wholphin No. 1 (2005) — Editor — 408 exemplars
McSweeney's Issue 14 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): McSweeney's at War for the Foreseeable Future and He's Never Been… (2004) — Editor — 400 exemplars
McSweeney's Issue 19 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Old Facts, New Fiction, & A Novella By T.C. Boyle (2006) — Editor — 398 exemplars
McSweeney's Issue 17 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Made to Look Like It Came In Your Mailbox (2005) 341 exemplars
McSweeney's Issue 11 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): It Can Be Free (2003) — Editor — 322 exemplars
McSweeney's Issue 23 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Still Going Strong Like Castro (We Meant Ramón) (2007) — Editor — 290 exemplars
McSweeney's Issue 24 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Trouble/Come Back, Donald Barthelme (2007) — Editor — 280 exemplars
Your Disgusting Head: The Darkest, Most Offensive and Moist Secrets of Your Ears, Mouth and Nose (How Books:… (2004) — Autor — 264 exemplars
One Hundred and Forty Five Stories in a Small Box: Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape, How the Water Feels to the… (2007) 219 exemplars
McSweeney's Issue 27 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): With Lots of Things Like This/Autophobia (2008) — Col·laborador — 218 exemplars
McSweeney's Issue 6 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): We Now Know Who (2001) — Editor — 203 exemplars
McSweeney's Issue 9 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): We Feel This One Is More Urgent (2002) — Editor — 201 exemplars
McSweeney's Issue 26 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Three Part Book Set (2008) — Editor — 186 exemplars
McSweeney's Issue 5 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Sometimes Not Believing How Great This All Is (1975) — Editor — 181 exemplars
McSweeney's Issue 31 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Vikings, Monks, Philosophers, Whores: Old Forms Unearthed (2009) 178 exemplars
McSweeney's Issue 33 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): The San Francisco Panorama (2009) — Editor — 138 exemplars
McSweeney's Issue 45 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Hitchcock and Bradbury Fistfight in Heaven (2013) — Editor — 103 exemplars
McSweeney's Issue 46 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Thirteen Crime Stories From Latin America (2014) — Editor — 88 exemplars
Out of Exile: Narratives from the Abducted and Displaced People of Sudan (2008) — Interviews & Introduction — 55 exemplars
Better than Fiction 2: True adventures from 30 great fiction writers (Lonely Planet Travel Literature) (2015) 28 exemplars
The Executioner's Song 9 exemplars
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 7 exemplars
McSweney's No. 48 4 exemplars
McSweeney's Books Sampler No. 1 3 exemplars
The Alaska of Giants and Gods 3 exemplars
After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned (in Speaking with the Angel - HORNBY) 1 exemplars
Theo (in The Book of Other People - SMITH) 1 exemplars
Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern. Issue Five (5). Sometimes Not Believing How Great This All Is. 1 exemplars
The Book Makers 1 exemplars
The Keeper of the Ornaments 1 exemplars
First Exposures: The First Ten Years 1 exemplars
Lo strambo trasloco della magione Miller 1 exemplars
Phoenix 1 exemplars
The Wapshot Scandal 1 exemplars
Chapter One (in McSweeney's 38 - EGGERS) 1 exemplars
4x Dave Eggers: Includes: What Is the What; How We Are Hungry; You Shall Know Our Velocity; A Heartbreaking Work of… (2009) 1 exemplars
Hologram for the King,A 1 exemplars
2018 1 exemplars
The Best We Have: The Blurbs of Dave Eggers 1 exemplars
Obres associades
My Bookstore: Writers Celebrate Their Favorite Places to Browse, Read, and Shop (2012) — Col·laborador — 558 exemplars
Object Lessons: The Paris Review Presents the Art of the Short Story (2012) — Introducció — 220 exemplars
Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases (2020) — Col·laborador — 182 exemplars
Voices from the Storm: The People of New Orleans on Hurricane Katrina and Its Aftermath (2006) — Series editor — 72 exemplars
Astro Noise: A Survival Guide for Living Under Total Surveillance (1668) — Col·laborador — 46 exemplars
Can You Hear Me Now?: The Inspiration, Wisdom, and Insight of Michael Eric Dyson (2009) — Introducció — 39 exemplars
McSweeney's Issue 52: In Their Faces a Landmark: Stories of Movement and Displacement (2018) — Founding Editor — 36 exemplars
Beyond the Possible: 50 Years of Creating Radical Change in a Community Called Glide (2013) — Pròleg — 26 exemplars
Infinite Jest: Part I With a Foreword by Dave Eggers (2013) — Pròleg, algunes edicions — 3 exemplars
Thomas Demand: L'Esprit d'Escalier — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
Don't Forget to Write for the Secondary Grades: 50 Enthralling and Effective Writing Lessons, Ages 11 and Up (2011) — Pròleg — 1 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom normalitzat
- Eggers, Dave
- Nom oficial
- Eggers, David
- Data de naixement
- 1970-03-12
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Llocs de residència
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
San Francisco, California, USA - Educació
- University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- Professions
- writer
author
novelist
publisher - Relacions
- Vida, Vendela (wife)
Eggers, Christopher (brother)
Demby, Constance (aunt) - Organitzacions
- McSweeney's
826 Valencia
American Academy of Arts and Letters (2015) - Premis i honors
- Newbery Medal (2024)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (2015)
Prix Médicis (2009)
TED Prize (2008)
Heinz Award (2007)
Addison M. Metcalf Award in Literature (2001) (mostra-les totes 11)
Carl Sandburg Literary Award (2017)
Dayton Literary Peace Prize (2010)
Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Award
Utne Reader 50 Visionaries Who Are Changing the World (2008)
Brown University honorary Doctor of Letters (2005) - Nota de desambiguació
- Please do not combine this author page with "Doris Haggis-On-Whey" books. Dr. and Mr. Doris Haggis-on-Whey are a joint pseudonym of Dave Eggers and his brother Christopher Eggers.
Please note that reviews of The Wild Things and Zeitoun have become confused on the Wild Things review thread.
Membres
Converses
The Circle: Theological undertones in "The Circle" a One LibraryThing, One Book (gener 2015)
The Circle: Introduce Yourself! a One LibraryThing, One Book (març 2014)
The Circle: Explicit References to 1984 Could Have Helped a Book talk (febrer 2014)
The Circle: General Likes/Dislikes a One LibraryThing, One Book (gener 2014)
The Circle: First Impressions a One LibraryThing, One Book (desembre 2013)
The Circle: A Horror Novel? a One LibraryThing, One Book (desembre 2013)
The Circle: How did it go? a One LibraryThing, One Book (desembre 2013)
The Circle: What rang true for you? a One LibraryThing, One Book (desembre 2013)
The Circle: Author's Style a One LibraryThing, One Book (novembre 2013)
The Circle: Non-spoiler Oddities a One LibraryThing, One Book (novembre 2013)
Ressenyes
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Overdue Podcast (1)
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First Novels (1)
To Read (5)
Read in 2016 (1)
Review 1 (1)
Deathreads (1)
4th Grade Books (1)
Our digital age (1)
Tagged Storms (1)
Tour of Africa (1)
Disaster Books (1)
2000s decade (2)
to get (2)
100 New Classics (2)
Unread books (3)
New Orleans (1)
2010s (1)
My TBR (1)
Florida (1)
Premis
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Estadístiques
- Obres
- 165
- També de
- 43
- Membres
- 67,198
- Popularitat
- #200
- Valoració
- 3.8
- Ressenyes
- 1,783
- ISBN
- 832
- Llengües
- 25
- Preferit
- 166