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Dave Eggers (born March 12, 1970) is an American writer, editor, and publisher. He is best known for his 2000 memoir, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius , which became a bestseller and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction .
Funk, Wolfgang. "The Quest for Authenticity – Dave Eggers’ A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius between Fiction and Reality." In The Metareferential Turn in Contemporary Arts and Media: Forms, Functions, and Attempts at Explanation, edited by Werner Wolf. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2011. Jensen, Mikkel.
Named for its street address, 826 Valencia was founded in 2002 by author Dave Eggers and veteran teacher Nínive Calegari, who both have ties to the literary and educational community. 826 consists of three centers, each encompassing a writing lab, a street-front student-friendly store that partially funds the programs, and two satellite classrooms in nearby middle schools.
In ‘To Be Destroyed,’ premiering Aug. 11 on MSNBC, Eggers visits Rapid City, where five books, including his own, were banned from high school classrooms
Dave Eggers is now an award-winning children’s author. Eggers’ “The Eyes & the Impossible,” the great adventure of a very fast dog, has received the John Newbery Medal for the year’s ...
ScholarMatch was launched in April 2010 by writer and philanthropist Dave Eggers. 826 Valencia, a nonprofit writing and tutoring center in San Francisco that Eggers founded with teacher Nínive Clements Calegari, grants four scholarships per year to local students, [2] but each year, "the other 100 applicants would go wanting," Eggers said in a press release about ScholarMatch. [3]
McSweeney's Publishing is an American nonprofit publishing house founded by Dave Eggers in 1998 and headquartered in San Francisco. The executive director is Amanda Uhle. McSweeney's first publication was the literary journal Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern in 1998. Since then, the company has published novels, books of poetry, and other ...
826 National is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping students, ages 6–18, improve their expository and creative writing skills. [1] The organization's eight chapters include 826 Valencia in San Francisco, 826NYC in Brooklyn, 826LA in Los Angeles, 826CHI in Chicago, 826Michigan (serving Ann Arbor, Detroit, and Ypsilanti), 826 Boston in Boston, 826DC in Washington, DC, 826 New Orleans ...