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Dave Eggers

Writer, Producer, Additional CreditsBorn March 12, 1970 (55 years)
Dave Eggers (born March 12, 1970) 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 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.

Known For

  • The Circle
  • Where the Wild Things Are
  • Promised Land
  • Away We Go
  • A Hologram for the King
  • Francis
  • American Teacher
  • Your Mother and I

Filmography

2021
2017
The Circle · as Novel
2016
2014
2009
Where the Wild Things Are · as Screenplay
2009

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