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Dave Eggers

Dave Eggers

Dave Eggers is the bestselling author of seven books, including A Hologram for the King, a finalist for the National Book Award; Zeitoun, winner of the American Book Award and Dayton Literary Peace Prize; and What Is the What, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won France’s Prix Medici. That book, about Valentino Achak Deng, a survivor of the civil war in Sudan, gave birth to the Valentino Achak Deng Foundation, which operates a secondary school in South Sudan run by Mr. Deng. Eggers is the founder and editor of McSweeney’s, an independent publishing house based in San Francisco that produces a quarterly journal, a monthly... Read full bio

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A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius will be released on February 12, 2013 in eBook
Feb 12, 2013
A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius is now available in eBook
Feb 12, 2013
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Creative Review, April 19, 2013
...and bottom of this post.) NW by Zadie Smith (Penguin Press). Cover by Tal Goretsky and Darren Haggar Dave Eggers also took a back seat in his clinical approach to the design of David Byrne's How Music Works, which also appeared on the ' list, selected...
Mountain Democrat, April 19, 2013
...bring books to people in the community. Last year the organization gave away 20 copies of ?Zeitoun? by Dave Eggers to people at the Upper Room Dining Hall in Placerville. ??Zeitoun? is an incredible book about a Muslim man who survives Hurricane...
PRWeb, April 17, 2013
...for the institution.” In addition to his roles at ideastream and The Civic Commons, Moulthrop is co-author, with Dave Eggers and Ninive Calegari, of the bestselling book Teachers Have it Easy: The Big Sacrifices and Small Salaries of America’s...
Yahoo! News, April 17, 2013
...the institution.? In addition to his roles at ideastream and The Civic Commons, Moulthrop is co-author, with Dave Eggers and Ninive Calegari, of the bestselling book Teachers Have it Easy: The Big Sacrifices and Small Salaries of America?s Teachers. The...
The Valley Sentinel, April 15, 2013
...by: Mariah K. Young Monstress by: Lysley Tenorio

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Telegraph Avenue by: Michael Chabon A Hologram for the King by: Dave Eggers The Orphan Master’s Son by: Adam Johnson NONFICTION
: Zoobiquity by: Barbara Natterson-Horowitz and...
Times Live South Africa, April 15, 2013
...Millet, Telegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon, The Round House by Louise Erdrich, A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers, The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers, This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz, and Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain, which...
The Atlantic Wire, April 15, 2013
...In mid-April of 2012 the book publishing world was left reeling when it was announced that for the first time since 1977, no Pulitzer Prize for Fiction would be awarded. This news came as a surprise not only to the book-reading public, but also to the...
Portland Mercury, February 12, 2013
...Nancy Rommelmann. It's a crazy story, packed with elaborate deception and guest appearances from the likes of Dave Eggers, Gus Van Sant, and Dennis Cooper. There's even a Manti Te'o-esque fake cancer-girlfriend! During the height of the hoax, the likes...
Portland Mercury, February 12, 2013
...Nancy Rommelmann. It's a crazy story, packed with elaborate deception and guest appearances from the likes of Dave Eggers, Gus Van Sant, and Dennis Cooper. There's even a Manti Te'o-esque fake cancer-girlfriend! During the height of the hoax, the likes...
Portland Mercury, February 12, 2013
...Nancy Rommelmann. It's a crazy story, packed with elaborate deception and guest appearances from the likes of Dave Eggers, Gus Van Sant, and Dennis Cooper. There's even a Manti Te'o-esque fake cancer-girlfriend! During the height of the hoax, the likes...
Portland Mercury, February 12, 2013
...Nancy Rommelmann. It's a crazy story, packed with elaborate deception and guest appearances from the likes of Dave Eggers, Gus Van Sant, and Dennis Cooper. There's even a Manti Te'o-esque fake cancer-girlfriend! During the height of the hoax, the likes...
Portland Mercury, February 12, 2013
...Nancy Rommelmann. It's a crazy story, packed with elaborate deception and guest appearances from the likes of Dave Eggers, Gus Van Sant, and Dennis Cooper. There's even a Manti Te'o-esque fake cancer-girlfriend! During the height of the hoax, the likes...
Portland Mercury, February 12, 2013
...Nancy Rommelmann. It's a crazy story, packed with elaborate deception and guest appearances from the likes of Dave Eggers, Gus Van Sant, and Dennis Cooper. There's even a Manti Te'o-esque fake cancer-girlfriend! During the height of the hoax, the likes...
Portland Mercury, February 12, 2013
...Nancy Rommelmann. It's a crazy story, packed with elaborate deception and guest appearances from the likes of Dave Eggers, Gus Van Sant, and Dennis Cooper. There's even a Manti Te'o-esque fake cancer-girlfriend! During the height of the hoax, the likes...