Author
Dave Eggers
Birth Date
March 12, 1970
(56 Years)
Associated Country
United States
Dave Eggers is an American author, editor, publisher, and philanthropist known for his contributions to contemporary literature and independent publishing. His work spans novels, memoirs, essays, journalism, and writing for younger readers, often exploring themes of identity, technology, social responsibility, and the challenges of modern life. Known for his inventive storytelling and distinctive voice, Eggers has become one of the most influential literary figures of his generation.
Eggers first gained widespread recognition through his memoir A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, which established him as a notable voice in American literature. Beyond his own writing, he has played a significant role in the publishing world as the founder of independent literary ventures and magazines dedicated to supporting emerging writers and innovative storytelling. His work frequently blends humor, satire, and emotional depth while examining contemporary cultural and political issues.
Throughout his career, Eggers has received critical acclaim for both his literary achievements and his efforts to promote literacy and creative education. He co-founded educational organizations dedicated to helping young people develop writing skills and confidence, extending his influence beyond the page. Through his fiction, nonfiction, publishing initiatives, and educational work, Eggers has built a reputation as a writer deeply engaged with both storytelling and the communities it serves.
Eggers first gained widespread recognition through his memoir A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, which established him as a notable voice in American literature. Beyond his own writing, he has played a significant role in the publishing world as the founder of independent literary ventures and magazines dedicated to supporting emerging writers and innovative storytelling. His work frequently blends humor, satire, and emotional depth while examining contemporary cultural and political issues.
Throughout his career, Eggers has received critical acclaim for both his literary achievements and his efforts to promote literacy and creative education. He co-founded educational organizations dedicated to helping young people develop writing skills and confidence, extending his influence beyond the page. Through his fiction, nonfiction, publishing initiatives, and educational work, Eggers has built a reputation as a writer deeply engaged with both storytelling and the communities it serves.
Books
Contrapposto 2026
Cricket Dib, born on the American prairie, has no particular prospects or ambitions until, in grade school, he realizes he can draw. He soon meets a girl, Olympia Argyros, one year older, who is...
The Forgetters, Book 8
The far-flung Mahoneys, who first arrived in California by shipwreck, are having a family reunion on their Central Coast fruit ranch—and it’s already more than anyone wanted.
There’s one thing that...
The Forgetters, Book 6
Aurora Mahoney runs one of three whale-watching businesses on the Monterey coast. It’s a life of great beauty, wonder, and camaraderie, but after one of her fellow captains retires, a new, and...
Sanrevelle 2025
The Forgetters, Book 7
A man named Rub, not too young and not too old, lives in a sinking skyscraper and works for a personal-injury lawyer who’s slowly losing his mind. Every day Rub stares out at the tiny boats on the San...
Johannes, a free dog, lives in an urban park by the sea. His job is to be the Eyes—to see everything that happens within the park and report back to the park’s elders, three ancient Bison. His...
The Forgetters, Book 5
Oisín Mahoney, in his early seventies, lives off the grid in rural Idaho, at the base of a steep pine-covered mountain. In his tilted cabin, he has no room for Calla and Torin, his grand-niece and...
The Comebacker 2024
The Forgetters, Book 4
Lionel Vratimos is a beat reporter covering the San Francisco Giants — an enviable job if not for the soggy fries, and the so-so weather, and the Giants’ losing record, and the shoe Lionel paid a...
The Forgetters, Book 3
Cole lives alone, has no pets, and has grown accustomed to a homelife of profound quiet (not to say tedium). When Daphne and her two young children move into the apartment next door, the noise is...
Fourteen Days 2024
Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdowns, Fourteen Days is an irresistibly propulsive collaborative novel from the Authors Guild, with an unusual twist: each...
The Forgetters, Book 2
In this long short story, or short novella, Dave Eggers gives us an unforgettable duo, Helen and Peter Mahoney, a homebody niece and her adventurous, almost-British uncle. Helen designs invitations to...
The Every 2021
Delaney Wells is an unlikely new hire at the Every. A former forest ranger and unwavering tech skeptic, she charms her way into an entry-level job with one goal in mind: to take down the company from...
The Museum of Rain 2021
The Forgetters, Book 1
Oisín Mahoney is an American Army vet in his 70s who is asked to lead a group of young grand-nieces and grand-nephews on a walk through the hills of California’s Central Coast. Walking toward a...
When the decorated Captain of a great ship descends the gangplank for the final time, a new leader, a man with a yellow feather in his hair, vows to step forward. Though he has no experience, no...
The Parade 2019
An unnamed country is leaving the darkness of a decade at war, and to commemorate the armistice the government commissions a new road connecting two halves of the state. Two men, foreign contractors...
The Lifters 2018
When Gran and his family move to Carousel, he has no idea that the town is built atop a secret. Little does he suspect, as he walks his sister to school or casually eats a banana, that mysterious...
The Monk of Mokha 2018
Mokhtar Alkhanshali grew up in San Francisco, one of seven siblings brought up by Yemeni immigrants in a tiny apartment. At age twenty-four, unable to pay for college, he works as a doorman, until a...
Josie and her children’s father have split up, she’s been sued by a former patient and lost her dental practice, and she’s grieving the death of a young man senselessly killed.
When her ex asks to...
In a barracks on an abandoned military base, miles from the nearest road, Thomas watches as the man he has brought wakes up. Kev, a NASA astronaut, doesn't recognize his captor, though Thomas...
The Circle 2013
When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world’s most powerful internet company, she feels she’s been given the opportunity of a lifetime. The Circle, run out of a sprawling California...
In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter’s college tuition, and...
Zeitoun 2010
Abdulrahman and Kathy Zeitoun run a house-painting business in New Orleans. In August of 2005, as Hurricane Katrina approaches, Kathy evacuates with their four young children, leaving Zeitoun to watch...
The Wild Things 2010
Max is a rambunctious eight-year-old whose world is changing around him: His father is absent, his mother is increasingly distracted, and his teenage sister has outgrown him. Sad and angry, Max dons...
In the grand tradition of Neapolitan ice cream, ZZ Top, and Cerberus, the tri-headed guardian of Hades, this set combines individual, short fiction collections by three talented practitioners of the...
What Is the What 2007
The epic novel based on the life of Valentino Achak Deng who, along with thousands of other children—the so-called Lost Boys—was forced to leave his village in Sudan at the age of seven and trek...
How We Are Hungry 2005
How We Are Hungry is a collection of stories about people searching for connection, purpose, forgiveness, and belonging. Set in locations ranging from remote foreign countries to familiar American...
Will Chmielewski and his friend Hand set out on an impulsive journey around the world after the death of their friend Jack and an unexpected financial windfall. Determined to give away the money to...
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is the moving memoir of a college senior who, in the space of five weeks, loses both of his parents to cancer and inherits his eight-year-old brother.
This...