Dave Eggers

Dave Eggers is an acclaimed American author, editor, and publisher who founded the literary magazine McSweeney's Quarterly Concern and the nonprofit writing centre 826 Valencia. He is one of the most versatile and prolific American writers of his generation, working across memoir, fiction, journalism, and screenwriting. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is his groundbreaking debut memoir about raising his younger brother after the deaths of both their parents, written with inventive, self-aware style that helped define a generation of American writing. His audiobooks and books are essential listening and reading for fans of innovative literary fiction and memoir.