What is Dave Eggers?
{{Infobox writer | name = Dave Eggers | image = Dave Eggers (11483).jpg | caption = Eggers at [[BookExpo America]] in 2018 | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1970|3|12|mf=y}} | birth_place = [[Boston, Massachusetts]], U.S. | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Writer, editor, publisher, philanthropist | period = 1993–present | movement = [[Postmodern literature]], [[post-postmodern]], [[new sincerity]] | website = {{URL|http://www.mcsweeneys.net}} {{URL|http://www.daveeggers.net}} | spouse = [[Vendela Vida]] | children = 2 }} '''Dave Eggers''' (born March 12, 1970) is an American writer, editor, and publisher. He wrote the best-selling memoir ''[[A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://today.brown.edu/articles/2008/05/eggers|title=Dave Eggers to deliver Brown University commencement address|date=May 19, 2008|access-date=December 4, 2009}}</ref> Eggers is also the founder of ''[[McSweeney's]]'', a co-founder of the literacy project [[826 Valencia]] and the [[human rights]] [[Nonprofit organization|nonprofit]] [[Voice of Witness]], and the founder of [[ScholarMatch]]. ==References== {{reflist}} {{US-bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Eggers, Dave}} [[Category:1970 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Philanthropists from Massachusetts]] [[Category:American editors]] [[Category:American novelists]] [[Category:Writers from Boston]] [[Category:Businesspeople from Boston]]