Dave Eggers

12 March 1970

100 works on record

Biography

Dave Eggers is the author of six previous books, including his most recent, Zeitoun, a nonfiction account of a Syrian-American immigrant and his extraordinary experience during Hurricane Katrina and What Is the What, a finalist for the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award. That book, about Valentino Achak Deng, a survivor of the civil war in southern Sudan, gave birth to the Valentino Achak Deng Foundation, run by Mr. Deng and dedicated to building secondary schools in southern Sudan. Eggers is the founder and editor of McSweeney’s, an independent publishing house based in San Francisco that produces a quarterly journal, a monthly magazine (The Believer), and Wholphin, a quarterly DVD of short films and documentaries. In 2002, with Nínive Calegari he co-founded 826 Valencia, a nonprofit writing and tutoring center for youth in the Mission District of San Francisco. Local communities have since opened sister 826 centers in Chicago, Los Angeles, Brooklyn, Ann Arbor, Seattle, and Boston. In 2004, Eggers taught at the University of California-Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, and there, with Dr. Lola Vollen, he co-founded Voice of Witness, a series of books using oral history to illuminate human rights crises around the world. A native of Chicago, Eggers graduated from the University of Illinois with a degree in journalism. He now lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and two children. [Source][1] [1]: http://www.mcsweeneys.net/pages/about-dave-eggers

Works

You shall know our velocity

A heartbreaking work of staggering genius

The Best of McSweeney's

What Is the What

How We Are Hungry

Out of Exile

McSweeney's Issue 30

McSweeney's 22

McSweeney's Issue 17 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern)

Pen & ink

John Currin

McSweeney's Issues One Through Three (Mcsweeney's)

McSweeney's Issue 25 (Mcsweeney's Quarterly Concern)

McSweeney's Issue 27 (Mcsweeney's Quarterly Concern)

Teachers Have It Easy

Forty Stories

McSweeney's Issue 18 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern)

How the water feels to the fishes

McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales

McSweeney's Issue 24 (Mcsweeney's Quarterly Concern)

One Hundred and Forty Five Stories in a Small Box

The Future Dictionary of America

New Stories From Our Shores

The Wild Things

McSweeney's 12

Sacrament

McSweeney's Issue 21 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern)

Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans

Away we go

When We Were Very Maakies

Zeitoun

Jokes Told in Heaven About Babies

McSweeney's Issue 23 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern)

L'esprit d'escalier

McSweeney's 13

McSweeney's Issue 11 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern)

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2002

McSweeney's Issue 20 (Mcsweeney's Quarterly Concern)

McSweeney's Issue 19 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern)

Short Short Stories

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008

Best American Nonrequired Reading 2011

First Exposures

Don't forget to write for the secondary grades

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2012

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2010

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2005

The Circle

Mcsweeneys 41

A Hologram For The King

Mcsweeneys 33

Mcsweeneys Issue 4

Mcsweeneys 37

Your Fathers Where Are They and the Prophets Do They Live Forever

Mcsweeneys Issue 47

McSweeney's 31

McSweeneys Issue 45

Mcsweeneys 35

Granta 110

Mcsweeney´s Thirty-nine

Heroes of the Frontier

Mcsweeneys No 38

Mcsweeneys 44

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2006

The best American nonrequired reading, 2004

Mcsweeneys 42 Multiples Or Twelve Stories Appearing In Up To Six Versions Each

Mcsweeneys No 40

The Story of Captain Nemo

Mcsweeneys 43

It Is Right to Draw Their Fur

Mcsweeneys 34

The best American nonrequired reading, 2003

Surviving justice

The Lifters

McSweeney's 28

McSweeney's 26

For the love of cheese

Abner & Ian Get Right-Side Up

Latin American crime

This bridge will not be gray

Tomorrow Most Likely

The best American nonrequired reading 2013

The Parade

Her Right Foot

What can a citizen do?

The voice of witness reader

The monk of Mokha

Fifteen

An innocent abroad

McSweeney's Issue 52 : In Their Faces a Landmark

McSweeney's 53

The Captain and the Glory

We Became Jaguars

Die Parade

McSweeney's, Issue 36

McSweeney's 54

Ungrateful Mammals

Dutch

McSweeney's Issue 49