Dave Eggers
✓ Source-basedfallingAmerican writer, editor, and publisher
Dave Eggers is an American writer, editor, and publisher. His 2000 memoir, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, became a bestseller and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.
Also inDeutsch
Photos 3
In their own words 10
It's not that I'm not social. I'm social enough. But the tools you guys create actually manufacture unnaturally extreme social needs.
Mercer, to Mae; p. 134
If there's a locked door, I start to make up all kinds of stories about what might be behind it. I feel like it's some kind of secret, and it leads to me making up lies.
Mae, to Bailey; p. 299
It was selfish and nothing more. The same way a child doesn't want to share her favorite toy. I understand that secrecy is part of, well, an aberrant behavior system.
Mae, to Bailey; p. 303
Awards 7
In their orbit 2
Connected to Dave 6
About this person
Dave Eggers is an American writer, editor, and publisher. His 2000 memoir, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, became a bestseller and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. Eggers is also the founder of several literary and philanthropic ventures, including the literary journal Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, the literacy project 826 Valencia, and the human rights non-profit organisation Voice of Witness. Additionally, he founded ScholarMatch, a program that connects donors with students needing funds for college tuition. His writing has appeared in publications including The New Yorker, Esquire, and The New York Times Magazine.
United StatesFame.am measures public visibility signals. It does not measure human value, talent, morality, or credibility.