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Dave Eggers, author portrait
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Dave Eggers

DAVE EGGERS is the author of many books, among them The Circle—the companion to the book you are holding—and also The Monk of Mokha, A Hologram for the King, What Is the What, and The Museum of Rain. He is the cofounder of 826 National, a network of youth writing centers, and Voice of Witness, an oral history book series that illuminates the stories of those impacted by human rights crises. He has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and is the recipient of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the American Book Award. He has attended the JetPack Aviation academy in Moorpark, California, but is not yet certified to fly off-tether. Born in Boston and raised in Illinois, he has now lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for three decades. He and his family often consider leaving, but they do not leave.

www.daveeggers.net
The Eyes and the Impossible
The Every
The Parade
The Captain and the Glory
The Lifters
The Monk of Mokha
Heroes of the Frontier
Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?
The Circle
A Hologram for the King
Zeitoun
The Wild Things
What Is the What
How We Are Hungry
You Shall Know Our Velocity
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Books

The Eyes and the Impossible
The Every
The Parade
The Captain and the Glory
The Lifters
The Monk of Mokha
Heroes of the Frontier
Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?
The Circle
A Hologram for the King
Zeitoun
The Wild Things
What Is the What
How We Are Hungry
You Shall Know Our Velocity
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

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