Dave Eggers
Birthday: 1970-03-12
Place of Birth: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Biography: 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.
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As Smart As They Are: The Author Project
A documentary film tracing the collaboration between One Ring Zero, the Brooklyn house-band for McSw...
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To Be Destroyed
A 30-minute documentary on book banning and censorship that follows author Dave Eggers as he investi...
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Blood Simple: A Conversation with Dave Eggers
A new conversation between author Dave Eggers and the Coen Brothers about the production, from incep...
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Gigantic (A Tale of Two Johns)
John Flansburgh & John Linnell met in the 1970s as junior high students in Lincoln, Massachusetts. A...
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