Dave Eggers
Teoksen A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and Mistakes We Knew We Were Making tekijä
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Dave Eggers was born on March 12th, 1970, in Boston, Massachusetts. His family moved to Lake Forest, Illinois when he was a child. Eggers attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, until his parents' deaths in 1991 and 1992. The loss left him responsible for his eight-year-old brother näytä lisää and later became the inspiration for his highly acclaimed memoir "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius". Published in 2000, the memoir was nominated for a nonfiction Pulitzer the following year. Eggers edits the popular "The Best American Nonrequired Reading" published annually. In 1998, he founded the independent publishing house, McSweeney's which publishes a variety of magazines and literary journals. Eggers has also opened several nonprofit writing centers for high school students across the United States. Eggers has written several novels and his title, A Hologram for the King, was a finalist for the 2012 National Book Award. His most recent work of fiction, entitled The Circle, was published in 2013. His recent nonfiction books are The Monk of Mokha (January 2018) and What Can a Citizen Do? (Illustrated by Shawn Harris)(September 2018). (Bowker Author Biography) näytä vähemmän
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(eng) Please do not combine this author page with "Doris Haggis-On-Whey" books. Dr. and Mr. Doris Haggis-on-Whey are a joint pseudonym of Dave Eggers and his brother Christopher Eggers. Please note that reviews of The Wild Things and Zeitoun have become confused on the Wild Things review thread.
Image credit: Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and Mistakes We Knew We Were Making (2000) 13,397 kappaletta
McSweeney's Issue 13 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): The Comics Issue (2004) — Toimittaja — 1,290 kappaletta
Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans: The Best of McSweeney's Humor Category (2004) — Editor & Introduction — 862 kappaletta
McSweeney's Issue 18 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) / Wholphin No. 1 (2005) — Toimittaja — 408 kappaletta
McSweeney's Issue 14 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): McSweeney's at War for the Foreseeable Future and He's Never Been… (2004) — Toimittaja — 400 kappaletta
McSweeney's Issue 19 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Old Facts, New Fiction, & A Novella By T.C. Boyle (2006) — Toimittaja — 398 kappaletta
McSweeney's Issue 17 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Made to Look Like It Came In Your Mailbox (2005) 341 kappaletta
McSweeney's Issue 11 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): It Can Be Free (2003) — Toimittaja — 322 kappaletta
McSweeney's Issue 23 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Still Going Strong Like Castro (We Meant Ramón) (2007) — Toimittaja — 290 kappaletta
McSweeney's Issue 12: Unpublished, Unknown, and/or Unbelievable (2003) — Toimittaja — 283 kappaletta
McSweeney's Issue 24 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Trouble/Come Back, Donald Barthelme (2007) — Toimittaja — 280 kappaletta
Your Disgusting Head: The Darkest, Most Offensive and Moist Secrets of Your Ears, Mouth and Nose (How Books:… (2004) — Tekijä — 264 kappaletta
One Hundred and Forty Five Stories in a Small Box: Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape, How the Water Feels to the… (2007) 219 kappaletta
McSweeney's Issue 27 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): With Lots of Things Like This/Autophobia (2008) — Avustaja — 218 kappaletta
McSweeney's Issue 6 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): We Now Know Who (2001) — Toimittaja — 203 kappaletta
McSweeney's Issue 9 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): We Feel This One Is More Urgent (2002) — Toimittaja — 201 kappaletta
McSweeney's Issue 26 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Three Part Book Set (2008) — Toimittaja — 186 kappaletta
McSweeney's Issue 5 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Sometimes Not Believing How Great This All Is (1975) — Toimittaja — 181 kappaletta
McSweeney's Issue 31 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Vikings, Monks, Philosophers, Whores: Old Forms Unearthed (2009) 178 kappaletta
McSweeney's Issue 33 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): The San Francisco Panorama (2009) — Toimittaja — 138 kappaletta
McSweeney's Issue 45 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Hitchcock and Bradbury Fistfight in Heaven (2013) — Toimittaja — 103 kappaletta
McSweeney's Issue 46 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Thirteen Crime Stories From Latin America (2014) — Toimittaja — 88 kappaletta
McSweeney's Issue 49 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Cover Stories (2017) — Toimittaja — 56 kappaletta
Out of Exile: Narratives from the Abducted and Displaced People of Sudan (2008) — Interviews & Introduction — 55 kappaletta
Better than Fiction 2: True adventures from 30 great fiction writers (Lonely Planet Travel Literature) (2015) 28 kappaletta
The Executioner's Song 9 kappaletta
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 7 kappaletta
McSweney's No. 48 4 kappaletta
McSweeney's Books Sampler No. 1 3 kappaletta
The Alaska of Giants and Gods 3 kappaletta
Unfamiliar - A Twice-Monthly Magazine of Different Fiction / September 1-15/05 / (2005) 2 kappaletta
After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned (in Speaking with the Angel - HORNBY) 1 kappale
The Book Makers 1 kappale
The Keeper of the Ornaments 1 kappale
First Exposures: The First Ten Years 1 kappale
Lo strambo trasloco della magione Miller 1 kappale
Phoenix 1 kappale
The Wapshot Scandal 1 kappale
Chapter One (in McSweeney's 38 - EGGERS) 1 kappale
4x Dave Eggers: Includes: What Is the What; How We Are Hungry; You Shall Know Our Velocity; A Heartbreaking Work of… (2009) 1 kappale
Hologram for the King,A 1 kappale
2018 1 kappale
Associated Works
My Bookstore: Writers Celebrate Their Favorite Places to Browse, Read, and Shop (2012) — Avustaja — 558 kappaletta
Object Lessons: The Paris Review Presents the Art of the Short Story (2012) — Johdanto — 220 kappaletta
Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases (2020) — Avustaja — 182 kappaletta
Voices from the Storm: The People of New Orleans on Hurricane Katrina and Its Aftermath (2006) — Series editor — 72 kappaletta
Can You Hear Me Now?: The Inspiration, Wisdom, and Insight of Michael Eric Dyson (2009) — Johdanto — 39 kappaletta
McSweeney's Issue 52: In Their Faces a Landmark: Stories of Movement and Displacement (2018) — Founding Editor — 36 kappaletta
Beyond the Possible: 50 Years of Creating Radical Change in a Community Called Glide (2013) — Esipuhe — 26 kappaletta
Infinite Jest: Part I With a Foreword by Dave Eggers (2013) — Esipuhe, eräät painokset — 3 kappaletta
Thomas Demand: L'Esprit d'Escalier — Avustaja — 1 kappale
Don't Forget to Write for the Secondary Grades: 50 Enthralling and Effective Writing Lessons, Ages 11 and Up (2011) — Esipuhe — 1 kappale
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- Kanoninen nimi
- Eggers, Dave
- Virallinen nimi
- Eggers, David
- Syntymäaika
- 1970-03-12
- Sukupuoli
- male
- Kansalaisuus
- USA
- Syntymäpaikka
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Asuinpaikat
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
San Francisco, California, USA - Koulutus
- University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- Ammatit
- writer
author
novelist
publisher - Suhteet
- Vida, Vendela (wife)
Eggers, Christopher (brother)
Demby, Constance (aunt) - Organisaatiot
- McSweeney's
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American Academy of Arts and Letters (2015) - Palkinnot ja kunnianosoitukset
- Newbery Medal (2024)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (2015)
Prix Médicis (2009)
TED Prize (2008)
Heinz Award (2007)
Addison M. Metcalf Award in Literature (2001) (näytä kaikki 11)
Carl Sandburg Literary Award (2017)
Dayton Literary Peace Prize (2010)
Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Award
Utne Reader 50 Visionaries Who Are Changing the World (2008)
Brown University honorary Doctor of Letters (2005) - Erotteluhuomautus
- Please do not combine this author page with "Doris Haggis-On-Whey" books. Dr. and Mr. Doris Haggis-on-Whey are a joint pseudonym of Dave Eggers and his brother Christopher Eggers.
Please note that reviews of The Wild Things and Zeitoun have become confused on the Wild Things review thread.
Jäseniä
Keskustelut
The Circle: Theological undertones in "The Circle", One LibraryThing, One Book (tammikuu 2015)
The Circle: Introduce Yourself!, One LibraryThing, One Book (maaliskuu 2014)
The Circle: Explicit References to 1984 Could Have Helped, Book talk (helmikuu 2014)
The Circle: General Likes/Dislikes, One LibraryThing, One Book (tammikuu 2014)
The Circle: First Impressions, One LibraryThing, One Book (joulukuu 2013)
The Circle: A Horror Novel?, One LibraryThing, One Book (joulukuu 2013)
The Circle: How did it go?, One LibraryThing, One Book (joulukuu 2013)
The Circle: What rang true for you?, One LibraryThing, One Book (joulukuu 2013)
The Circle: Author's Style, One LibraryThing, One Book (marraskuu 2013)
The Circle: Non-spoiler Oddities, One LibraryThing, One Book (marraskuu 2013)
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