Dave Eggers
Autore di A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius and Mistakes We Knew We Were Making
Sull'Autore
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 mostra altro 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) mostra meno
Nota di disambiguazione:
(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.
Fonte dell'immagine: Eduardo de la Mangana
Serie
Opere di Dave Eggers
A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius and Mistakes We Knew We Were Making (2000) 13,476 copie, 209 recensioni
Erano solo ragazzi in cammino: autobiografia di Valentino Achak Deng (2006) 6,850 copie, 165 recensioni
McSweeney's Issue 13 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): The Comics Issue (2004) — A cura di — 1,292 copie, 12 recensioni
Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans: The Best of McSweeney's Humor Category (2004) — Editor & Introduction — 866 copie, 16 recensioni
McSweeney's Issue 18 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) / Wholphin No. 1 (2005) — A cura di — 411 copie, 2 recensioni
McSweeney's Issue 14 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): McSweeney's at War for the Foreseeable Future and He's Never Been… (2004) — A cura di — 400 copie, 5 recensioni
McSweeney's Issue 19 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Old Facts, New Fiction, & A Novella By T.C. Boyle (2006) — A cura di — 399 copie, 4 recensioni
McSweeney's Issue 17 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Made to Look Like It Came In Your Mailbox (2005) 341 copie, 5 recensioni
McSweeney's Issue 22: Three Books Held Within By Magnets (2007) — A cura di — 338 copie, 4 recensioni
McSweeney's Issue 11 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): It Can Be Free (2003) — A cura di — 323 copie, 2 recensioni
McSweeney's Issue 23 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Still Going Strong Like Castro (We Meant Ramón) (2007) — A cura di — 293 copie, 5 recensioni
McSweeney's Issue 12: Unpublished, Unknown, and/or Unbelievable (2003) — A cura di — 284 copie, 4 recensioni
McSweeney's Issue 24 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Trouble/Come Back, Donald Barthelme (2007) — A cura di — 281 copie, 5 recensioni
Your Disgusting Head: The Darkest, Most Offensive and Moist Secrets of Your Ears, Mouth and Nose (How Books:… (2004) — Autore — 267 copie, 2 recensioni
McSweeney's Issue 25 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) (2007) — Collaboratore — 234 copie, 5 recensioni
McSweeney's Issue 27 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): With Lots of Things Like This/Autophobia (2008) — Collaboratore — 216 copie, 4 recensioni
McSweeney's Issue 6 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): We Now Know Who (2002) — A cura di — 202 copie, 5 recensioni
McSweeney's Issue 9 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): We Feel This One Is More Urgent (2002) — A cura di — 201 copie, 2 recensioni
McSweeney's Issue 30 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Rejoice! (2009) — A cura di — 192 copie, 6 recensioni
McSweeney's Issue 26 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Three Part Book Set (2008) — A cura di — 186 copie, 4 recensioni
McSweeney's Issue 5 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Sometimes Not Believing How Great This All Is (2012) — A cura di — 181 copie, 2 recensioni
McSweeney's Issue 31 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Vikings, Monks, Philosophers, Whores: Old Forms Unearthed (2009) 180 copie, 4 recensioni
McSweeney's Issue 4: Trying, Trying, Trying, Trying, Trying (2010) — A cura di — 163 copie, 3 recensioni
McSweeney's Issue 33 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): The San Francisco Panorama (2009) — A cura di — 139 copie, 3 recensioni
McSweeney's Issue 45 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Hitchcock and Bradbury Fistfight in Heaven (2013) — A cura di — 107 copie, 5 recensioni
McSweeney's Issue 38 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) (2011) — Editor/Contributor — 105 copie, 4 recensioni
McSweeney's Issue 46 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Thirteen Crime Stories From Latin America (2014) — A cura di — 91 copie, 5 recensioni
Non vogliamo male a nessuno: i migliori racconti della rivista McSweeneys: volume secondo (2005) 83 copie, 1 recensione
McSweeney's Issue 48 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) (2014) — Editor/Contributor — 66 copie, 2 recensioni
McSweeney's Issue 54 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): The End of Trust (2018) 64 copie, 3 recensioni
McSweeney's Issue 42 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Multiples (2013) — A cura di — 63 copie, 2 recensioni
McSweeney's Issue 49 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Cover Stories (2017) — A cura di — 58 copie, 3 recensioni
Out of Exile: Narratives from the Abducted and Displaced People of Sudan (2008) — Interviews & Introduction — 55 copie
Better than Fiction 2: True adventures from 30 great fiction writers (Lonely Planet Travel Literature) (2015) 30 copie
McSweeney's Issue 73 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Manifesto: A Collection of Manifestos (2024) 7 copie
The Alaska of Giants and Gods 3 copie
McSweeney's Books Sampler No. 1 3 copie
Dave Eggers 1st edit/1 print McSweeney's 32 2009 [Hardcover] Eggers, Dave [Hardcover] Eggers, Dave 1 copia
McSweeney's 5 1 copia
The Book Makers 1 copia
4x Dave Eggers: Includes: What Is the What; How We Are Hungry; You Shall Know Our Velocity; A Heartbreaking Work of… (2009) 1 copia
The Wapshot Scandal 1 copia
Phoenix 1 copia
2018 1 copia
Hologram for the King,A 1 copia
Opere correlate
La super raccolta di storie d'avventura: (in realta e il numero 10 della rivista McSweeney?s) (2002) — Collaboratore — 1,477 copie, 20 recensioni
My Bookstore: Writers Celebrate Their Favorite Places to Browse, Read, and Shop (2012) — Collaboratore — 569 copie, 15 recensioni
Object Lessons: The Paris Review Presents the Art of the Short Story (2012) — Introduzione — 223 copie, 9 recensioni
One Hundred and Forty Five Stories in a Small Box: Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape, How the Water Feels to the… (2007) — Collaboratore — 219 copie, 1 recensione
Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases (2020) — Collaboratore — 190 copie, 4 recensioni
Guida alla coppa del mondo per tifosi dotati di cervello (2006) — Collaboratore — 159 copie, 4 recensioni
Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Confront the Occupation (2017) — Collaboratore — 127 copie, 4 recensioni
David Foster Wallace: The Last Interview and Other Conversations (2012) — Autore — 112 copie, 8 recensioni
An Innocent Abroad: Life-Changing Trips from 35 Great Writers (2014) — Collaboratore — 73 copie, 4 recensioni
Voices from the Storm: The People of New Orleans on Hurricane Katrina and Its Aftermath (2006) — Series editor — 72 copie, 1 recensione
Can You Hear Me Now?: The Inspiration, Wisdom, and Insight of Michael Eric Dyson (2009) — Introduzione — 40 copie
McSweeney's Issue 52: In Their Faces a Landmark: Stories of Movement and Displacement (2018) — Founding Editor — 36 copie, 3 recensioni
Drivel: Deliciously Bad Writing by Your Favorite Authors (2014) — Collaboratore — 28 copie, 1 recensione
Beyond the Possible: 50 Years of Creating Radical Change in a Community Called Glide (2013) — Prefazione — 27 copie
Don't Forget to Write for the Secondary Grades: 50 Enthralling and Effective Writing Lessons, Ages 11 and Up (2011) — Prefazione — 1 copia
Thomas Demand: L'Esprit d'Escalier — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Eggers, Dave
- Nome legale
- Eggers, David
- Data di nascita
- 1970-03-12
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
San Francisco, California, USA - Istruzione
- University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- Attività lavorative
- writer
author
novelist
publisher - Relazioni
- Vida, Vendela (wife)
Eggers, Christopher (brother)
Demby, Constance (aunt) - Organizzazioni
- McSweeney's
826 Valencia
American Academy of Arts and Letters (2015) - Premi e riconoscimenti
- 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) (mostra tutto 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) - Nota di disambiguazione
- 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.
Utenti
Discussioni
The Circle: Theological undertones in "The Circle" in One LibraryThing, One Book (Gennaio 2015)
The Circle: Introduce Yourself! in One LibraryThing, One Book (Marzo 2014)
The Circle: Explicit References to 1984 Could Have Helped in Book talk (Febbraio 2014)
The Circle: General Likes/Dislikes in One LibraryThing, One Book (Gennaio 2014)
The Circle: First Impressions in One LibraryThing, One Book (Dicembre 2013)
The Circle: A Horror Novel? in One LibraryThing, One Book (Dicembre 2013)
The Circle: How did it go? in One LibraryThing, One Book (Dicembre 2013)
The Circle: What rang true for you? in One LibraryThing, One Book (Dicembre 2013)
The Circle: Author's Style in One LibraryThing, One Book (Novembre 2013)
The Circle: Non-spoiler Oddities in One LibraryThing, One Book (Novembre 2013)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 168
- Opere correlate
- 46
- Utenti
- 67,902
- Popolarità
- #198
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 1,804
- ISBN
- 832
- Lingue
- 25
- Preferito da
- 166