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About Dave Eggers
American writer, editor, and publisher
Dave Eggers is an American writer, editor, and publisher. He is known for work across fiction, non-fiction, and children’s books, and for a career that has moved between writing and publishing. His 2000 memoir, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, became a bestseller and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. His work ranges across genres, but the available record here points especially to his nonfiction writing and his reach as an author with a wide body of published work.
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Books by Dave Eggers
The Circle
2013
What Is the What
2007
A heartbreaking work of staggering genius
2001
A Hologram For The King
2016
Heroes of the Frontier
2016