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- Eggers was born in Boston, Massachusetts and raised in a family with three siblings. His father, John K. Eggers (1936–1991), was an attorney, and his mother, Heidi McSweeney Eggers (1940–1992), was a schoolteacher. The family moved to Lake Forest, Illinois, where Eggers attended public high school and was a classmate of actor Vince Vaughn.
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Dave Eggers (born March 12, 1970) is an American writer, editor, and publisher. He is best known for his 2000 memoir, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius , which became a bestseller and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction .
Eggers grew up in Boston and in Illinois, and for a time he studied journalism at the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign. When he was 21 years old, however, the death of both of his parents within a very brief period led him to drop his studies in order to help raise his 8-year-old brother, Christopher (Toph).
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After the death of his parents, Eggers moved to Berkeley, California with his eight-year-old younger brother, Toph, who Eggers was now responsible for raising. While Toph attended school, Eggers worked for a local newspaper. During this time, he worked for Salon.com and co-founded Might Magazine. In 2000, Eggers published A Heartbreaking Work of St...
The best work that Eggers has done has not been as a writer, but as a publishing entrepreneur and activist. Eggers is well known as the founder of the independent publisher McSweeney's and the literary magazine The Believer, which is edited by his wife, Vendela Vida. In 2002, he co-founded the 826 Valencia project, a writing workshop for teens in S...
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius(2000)You Shall Know Our Velocity(novel) (2002)How We Are Hungry (2004)(2005)May 21, 2024 · Dave Eggers was born to John K. Eggers, an attorney, and Heidi McSweeney Eggers, a school teacher. His siblings were Bill, Beth, and Christopher (Toph). He attended high school in Lake Forest, near Chicago and he also obtained his degree in journalism at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Dave Eggers was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1970 and spent most of his youth in the upscale neighborhood of Lake Forest, a suburban community that hugs Lake Michigan just north of...
When Dave Eggers was 21 and living in Lake Forest, Illinois, both his parents died of cancer five weeks apart, leaving Eggers to raise his 8-year-old brother, Christopher.
Ever since Heartbreaking/Staggering, his 2000 memoir, became a cultural landmark akin to Catcher in the Rye and London Calling, Eggers has written books of both fiction and nonfiction, has co-scripted at least two successful screenplays, has launched a string of 826 writing centers across the country and has had a hand in so many publishing vent...
