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Dave Eggers

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Born:: March 12, 1970, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. (age 54)

Notable Works:: “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius”; “A Hologram for the King”; “Heroes of the Frontier”; “The Circle”; “The Every”; “The Monk of Mokha”; “The Parade”; “Visitants”; “What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng”; “Zeitoun”

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Dave Eggers (born March 12, 1970, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.) is an American author, publisher, and literacy advocate whose breakout memoir, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (2000), was followed by other fiction and nonfiction successes. He also founded the publishing house McSweeney’s in 1998. 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 ...(100 of 820 words)

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