Dave Eggers is an American writer, editor, and publisher. He wrote the 2000 best-selling memoir A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. Eggers is also the founder of Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, a literary journal; a co-founder of the literacy project 826 Valencia, co-founder of The Hawkins Project, and the human rights nonprofit Voice of Witness; and the founder of ScholarMatch, a program that matches donors with students needing funds for college tuition. His writing has appeared in several magazines, including The New Yorker, Esquire, and The New York Times Magazine.
Eggers in 2018
Eggers worked with Sudan refugee Valentino Achak Deng to tell a fictionalized account of Achak's life story.
Eggers in October 2008
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is a year 2000 memoir by Dave Eggers. It chronicles his stewardship of his younger brother Christopher "Toph" Eggers following the cancer-related deaths of his parents.
First edition