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Dave Eggers is an American editor, writer, and publisher. He authored the best-selling memoir titled A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. Dave is the founder of a literary journal called Timothy McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern.
Also, he is the co-founder of the literacy project 826 Valencia as well as the human rights nonprofit Voice of Witness. Apart from that, Dave founded a program called ScholarMatch that matches donors with students needing funds for college tuition. His writing has appeared in aa number of magazines.
Dave Eggers Age
He was born on March 12, 1970, in Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America. Dave is 52 years old.
Dave Eggers Height
He is a man of above-average stature. Dave stands at a height of 5 ft 10 in ( Approx 1.78m).
Dave Eggers Family
He was born to his parents in Boston, Massachusetts. Dave grew up alongside his three siblings. His father, John K. Eggers was born in 1936 and served as an attorney. John died in 1991. Dave’s mother Heidi McSweeney Eggers was born in 1940 and served as a school teacher. He died in 1992. John was Protestant while Heidi was Catholic.
When Dave was still a child, he and his family moved to the suburb of Lake Forest, near Chicago. Dave’s elder brother called William D is a researcher and has worked for several conservative think tanks. William has done research promoting privatization for those think tanks. Dave’s sister, Beth, died by suicide in November 2001. During a 2002 fan interview for McSweeney’s, Dave briefly spoke about his sister’s death.
Dave Eggers Wife
Currently, Dave lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife Vendela Vida who is also a writer. Dave and Vendela met in 1998 in San Francisco at a wedding and started dating in 1999. The duo shares two children. Dave was one of three 2008 TED Prize recipients. where his TED Prize wish was for helping community members personally engage with local public schools. Utne Reader named Dave as one of “50 Visionaries Who Are Changing the World” in 2008.
Dave Eggers Education
He attended a public high school in the suburb of Lake Forest, near Chicago, and was a classmate of actor Vince Vaughn. From there, Dave joined the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. initially, he intended to get a degree in journalism. However, the death of his parent interrupted his studies. Dave lost his father in 1991 from brain and lung cancer, and his mother died in January 1992 from stomach cancer.
The death of his parents was chronicled in his first book, the fictionalized A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. At the time, Dave was only 21, and his youngest sibling, Christopher (“Toph”), was 8 years old. His elder siblings William and Beth, were not able to commit to caring for Toph. William had a full-time job while Beth was enrolled in law school. As a result, Dave took the responsibility. He was forced to leave the University of Illinois. Dave moved to Berkeley, California, with his girlfriend Kirsten and his brother.
Initially, they moved in with their sister Beth, and her roommate but later found a place in another part of town. They paid for it with money left to them by their parents. Toph attended a small private school while Dave did temp work and freelance graphic design for a local newspaper. Dave eventually took over a local free newspaper called Cups with his friend David Moodie. With time, it gradually evolved into the satirical magazine Might.
Dave Eggers McSweeney’s
He founded an independent publishing house called McSweeney’s which was named for his mother’s maiden name. McSweeney’s is a publishing house that produces a quarterly literary journal. In 1998, they published Timothy McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern; a monthly journal, The Believer debuted in 2003 and is edited by Dave’s wife, Vendela Vida. A quarterly DVD magazine, Wholphin was published from 2005 to 2012.
Other works include Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans, The Future Dictionary of America, as well as “Dr. and Mr. Haggis-On-Whey”, all children’s books of literary nonsense, which Dave writes with his younger brother and uses as a pseudonym. Dave wrote an essay about the U.S. national team and soccer in the United States ahead of the 2006 FIFA World Cup for The Thinking Fan’s Guide to the World Cup.
It contained essays about each competing team in the tournament. The essay was published with aid from the journal Granta. Dave, according to The San Francisco Chronicle, was rumored to be a possible candidate to be the new editor of The Paris Review before the Review selected Lorin Stein.
Dave Eggers 826 National
He and educator Nínive Clements Calegari co-founded 826 Valencia in 2002. This is nonprofit writing and tutoring center for kids ages 6–18 in San Francisco. The organization has since grown into six chapters across the United States: Los Angeles, New York City, Chicago, Ann Arbor, Michigan, Washington, D.C., and Boston. All the chapters are under the auspices of the nonprofit organization 826 National. Dave appeared at a series of fund-raising events in 2006, dubbed the Revenge of the Book–Eaters tour, to support these programs.
Dave Eggers Books
Novels
– 2001 You Shall Know Our Velocity, or You Shall Know Our Velocity!
– 2003 Sacrament, revised and expanded version of You Shall Know Our Velocity
– 2004 The Unforbidden is Compulsory; or, Optimism, novella
– 2006 What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng
– 2009 The Wild Things, a novelization of the film Where the Wild Things Are
– 2012 A Hologram for the King
– 2013 The Circle
– 2014 Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?
– 2016 Heroes of the Frontier
– 2019 The Parade
– 2019 The Captain and the Glory (2019)
– 2021 The Museum of Rain, novella
– 20121 The Every
Dave Eggers Children’s books
– 2003 Giraffes? Giraffes!
– 2001 Your Disgusting Head
– 2006 Animals of the Ocean, in Particular the Giant Squid
– 2008 Cold Fusion
– 2010 Children and the Tundra
Dave Eggers Net Worth
He is an American editor, writer, and publisher. Dave has accumulated an estimated net worth of $3,795,196
How Old Is Dave Eggers
Dave is 52 years old. He was born on March 12, 1970, in Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.
Is Dave Eggers Married
He married Vendela Vida who is also a writer. Dave and Vendela met in 1998 in San Francisco at a wedding and started dating in 1999. The duo shares two children.
Who Is Dave Eggers
Dave is an American editor, writer, and publisher. He authored the best-selling memoir titled A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. Dave is the founder of a literary journal called Timothy McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern.