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Dave Eggers Biography |
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Dave Eggers (born March 12, 1970 in Chicago, Illinois) is an List of novelists from the United States writer and editing.
Eggers grew up in Lake Forest, Illinois and attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He lives in San Francisco, California. He is married to Vendela Vida, a graduate of the Columbia University MFA program and the author of two books, Girls on the Verge and And Now You Can Go. In October 2005, the couple welcomed a daughter named October Adelaide Eggers Vida. Eggers's brother, Bill, is a researcher who has worked for several conservative think tanks http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/eggers.htm, doing research on Eastern Europe. His sister, Beth, claimed that Eggers grossly understated her role in raising their brother Toph and made use of her journals in writing A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius without compensating her http://www.aphrodigitaliac.com/mm/archive/2000/04/17/. She later recanted her claims in a posting on her brother's own website McSweeney's Internet Tendency, calling them "a really terrible LaToya Jackson moment." On March 1, 2002, the New York Post reported that Beth, then a lawyer in Modesto, California, had committed suicide. Work Eggers began writing as a Salon.com editor and founded Might magazine magazine, while also writing a comic strip called Smarter Feller (originally Swell, then Smart Feller) for SF Weekly. His first book was a memoir (with fictional elements), A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (2000 in literature). It focuses on the author's struggle to raise his younger brother in San Francisco following the sudden deaths of his parents. The book quickly became a bestseller and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. The memoir was praised for its originality, idiosyncratic self-referencing, and for several innovative stylistic elements. Some editions were published with a lengthy, apologetic postscript entitled "Mistakes We Knew We Were Making". In 2002 in literature he published his first 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 in literature and then retitled You Shall Know Our Velocity! for its Vintage imprint distribution. He has since also published a collection of short stories, How We Are Hungry, and three politically-themed serials for Salon.com. His next book, What is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng, As of 2006 in October 2006. Eggers is also the editor of the Best American Nonrequired Reading series, an annual anthology of short stories, essays, journalism, satire, and alternative comics. Eggers is also the founder of McSweeney's, an independent publishing house. McSweeney's produces a quarterly literary journal, Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern; a monthly journal, The Believer (magazine); and a quarterly DVD magazine, Wholphin (DVD). Other works include The Future Dictionary of America, Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans, and the "Dr. and Mr. Haggis-On-Whey" children's books, which Eggers writes with his younger brother. Ahead of the 2006 FIFA World Cup, Eggers wrote an essay about the United States men's national soccer team and soccer in the United States for The Thinking Fan's Guide to the World Cup, a book published with aid of the journal Granta, that contained essays about each competing team in the tournament. Eggers currently teaches writing in San Francisco at 826 Valencia, a nonprofit tutoring center and writing school for children which he cofounded in 2002. Eggers has recruited volunteers to operate similar programs in Los Angeles, California (826LA}, New York City (826NYC), Seattle, Washington (826 Seattle), Chicago (826 Chicago), and Ann Arbor, Michigan (826 Michigan). In 2006, he appeared at a series of fundraising events, dubbed the Revenge of the Book Eaters tour, to support these programs. The Chicago show, at the Park West theatre, featured Death Cab For Cutie frontman Ben Gibbard. Bibliography Nonfiction Fiction Children's books Other As editor or contributor (non-McSweeney's publications) Misc 
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