Dave Eggers

Auteur van A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and Mistakes We Knew We Were Making

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Dave Eggers was born on March 12th, 1970, in Boston, Massachusetts. His family moved to Lake Forest, Illinois when he was a child. Eggers attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, until his parents' deaths in 1991 and 1992. The loss left him responsible for his eight-year-old brother toon meer and later became the inspiration for his highly acclaimed memoir "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius". Published in 2000, the memoir was nominated for a nonfiction Pulitzer the following year. Eggers edits the popular "The Best American Nonrequired Reading" published annually. In 1998, he founded the independent publishing house, McSweeney's which publishes a variety of magazines and literary journals. Eggers has also opened several nonprofit writing centers for high school students across the United States. Eggers has written several novels and his title, A Hologram for the King, was a finalist for the 2012 National Book Award. His most recent work of fiction, entitled The Circle, was published in 2013. His recent nonfiction books are The Monk of Mokha (January 2018) and What Can a Citizen Do? (Illustrated by Shawn Harris)(September 2018). (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder

Bevat de namen: Dave Eggers, ed. Dave Eggers

Ontwarringsbericht:

(eng) Please do not combine this author page with "Doris Haggis-On-Whey" books. Dr. and Mr. Doris Haggis-on-Whey are a joint pseudonym of Dave Eggers and his brother Christopher Eggers. Please note that reviews of The Wild Things and Zeitoun have become confused on the Wild Things review thread.

Fotografie: Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007

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The Best American Nonrequired Reading

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The Circle

The Haggis-On-Whey World of Unbelievable Brilliance

Werken van Dave Eggers

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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and Mistakes We Knew We Were Making (2000) 13,260 exemplaren

Wat is de Wat (2006) 6,702 exemplaren

De Cirkel (2013) 5,694 exemplaren

Zeitoun (2009) 4,133 exemplaren

U zult versteld staan van onze beweeglijkheid! (2002) 3,116 exemplaren

Een hartverscheurend verhaal van duizelingwekkende genialiteit (2000) 2,324 exemplaren

Hoe hongerig wij zijn (2004) 2,227 exemplaren

Een hologram voor de koning (2012) 1,646 exemplaren

Max (en de Wild Things) (2009) 1,404 exemplaren

U zult versteld staan van onze beweeglijkheid (2002) 1,347 exemplaren

McSweeney's Issue 13 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): The Comics Issue (2004) — Redacteur — 1,284 exemplaren

Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans: The Best of McSweeney's Humor Category (2004) — Editor & Introduction — 858 exemplaren

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2006 (2006) — Redacteur — 753 exemplaren

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2003 (2003) — Redacteur — 743 exemplaren

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2004 (2004) — Redacteur — 739 exemplaren

Helden van de grens (2016) 701 exemplaren

De monnik van Mokka (2018) 660 exemplaren

The Future Dictionary of America (2004) — Redacteur — 621 exemplaren

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2005 (2005) — Redacteur — 614 exemplaren

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007 (2007) — Redacteur — 612 exemplaren

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2002 (2002) — Redacteur — 593 exemplaren

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008 (2008) — Redacteur — 460 exemplaren

McSweeney's Issue 15 (Mcsweeney's Quarterly Concern) (2005) — Redacteur — 448 exemplaren

McSweeney's Issue 16 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) (2005) — Redacteur — 442 exemplaren

Uw vaderen, waar zijn zij? en de profeten, leven zij voor eeuwig? (2014) 438 exemplaren

The Every (2021) 419 exemplaren

Giraffes? Giraffes! (2003) — Auteur — 417 exemplaren

McSweeney's Issue 18 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) / Wholphin No. 1 (2005) — Redacteur — 406 exemplaren

McSweeney's Issue 20 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) (2006) 405 exemplaren

Her Right Foot (2017) 400 exemplaren

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McSweeney's Issue 19 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Old Facts, New Fiction, & A Novella By T.C. Boyle (2006) — Redacteur — 396 exemplaren

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2009 (2009) — Redacteur — 359 exemplaren

McSweeney's Issue 17 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Made to Look Like It Came In Your Mailbox (2005) 340 exemplaren

McSweeney's Issue 22: Three Books Held Within By Magnets (2007) — Redacteur — 331 exemplaren

McSweeney's Issue 21 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) (2006) — Redacteur — 329 exemplaren

McSweeney's Issue 11 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): It Can Be Free (2003) — Redacteur — 320 exemplaren

De parade (2019) 311 exemplaren

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2010 (2010) — Redacteur — 298 exemplaren

Where the Wild Things Are [2009 film] (2009) — Screenwriter — 297 exemplaren

McSweeney's Issue 23 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Still Going Strong Like Castro (We Meant Ramón) (2007) — Redacteur — 289 exemplaren

McSweeney's Issue 12: Unpublished, Unknown, and/or Unbelievable (2003) — Redacteur — 281 exemplaren

McSweeney's Issue 24 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Trouble/Come Back, Donald Barthelme (2007) — Redacteur — 277 exemplaren

Your Disgusting Head: The Darkest, Most Offensive and Moist Secrets of Your Ears, Mouth and Nose (How Books:… (2004) — Auteur — 264 exemplaren

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2011 (2011) — Redacteur — 234 exemplaren

McSweeney's Issue 25 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) (2007) — Medewerker — 231 exemplaren

McSweeney's Issue 27 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): With Lots of Things Like This/Autophobia (2008) — Medewerker — 217 exemplaren

One Hundred and Forty Five Stories in a Small Box: Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape, How the Water Feels to the… (2007) 215 exemplaren

McSweeney's Issue 8 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) (2002) — Redacteur — 213 exemplaren

McSweeney's Issue 9 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): We Feel This One Is More Urgent (2002) — Redacteur — 201 exemplaren

McSweeney's Issue 6 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): We Now Know Who (2001) — Redacteur — 200 exemplaren

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2012 (2012) — Redacteur — 195 exemplaren

The Lifters (2018) 192 exemplaren

Animals of the Ocean, in Particular the Giant Squid (HOW) (2006) — Auteur — 190 exemplaren

McSweeney's Issue 30 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Rejoice! (2009) — Redacteur — 186 exemplaren

McSweeney's Issue 26 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Three Part Book Set (2008) — Redacteur — 184 exemplaren

McSweeney's Issue 5 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Sometimes Not Believing How Great This All Is (1975) — Redacteur — 181 exemplaren

McSweeney's Issue 29 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) (2008) — Redacteur — 177 exemplaren

McSweeney's Issue 31 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Vikings, Monks, Philosophers, Whores: Old Forms Unearthed (2009) 177 exemplaren

McSweeney's Issue 7 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) (2001) — Redacteur — 177 exemplaren

Short Short Stories (Pocket Penguins) (2005) 174 exemplaren

What Can a Citizen Do? (2018) 174 exemplaren

McSweeney's Issue 28 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) (2008) — Redacteur — 168 exemplaren

McSweeney's Issue 4: Trying, Trying, Trying, Trying, Trying (2000) — Redacteur — 163 exemplaren

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2013 (2013) — Redacteur — 151 exemplaren

McSweeney's Issue 32: 2024 AD (2009) — Redacteur — 143 exemplaren

The Best of McSweeney's, Volume 1 (2004) 139 exemplaren

The Best of McSweeney's {complete} (1800) — Redacteur — 138 exemplaren

McSweeney's Issue 33 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): The San Francisco Panorama (2009) — Redacteur — 137 exemplaren

Surviving Justice: America's Wrongfully Convicted and Exonerated (2005) 131 exemplaren

Tomorrow Most Likely (2019) 130 exemplaren

The Captain and the Glory: An Entertainment (2019) 129 exemplaren

McSweeney's Nos. 1-3 (2006) 122 exemplaren

McSweeney's Issue 35 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) (2010) — Redacteur — 113 exemplaren

McSweeney's Issue 34 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) (2010) — Redacteur — 109 exemplaren

McSweeney's Issue 38 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) (2011) — Editor/Contributor — 105 exemplaren

McSweeney's Issue 37 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) (2011) — Redacteur — 99 exemplaren

McSweeney's Issue 45 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Hitchcock and Bradbury Fistfight in Heaven (2013) — Redacteur — 99 exemplaren

McSweeney's Issue 40 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) (2012) — Redacteur — 96 exemplaren

McSweeney's Issue 3: Windfall Republic (1999) — Redacteur — 94 exemplaren

McSweeney's Issue 36 (2010) 88 exemplaren

McSweeney's Issue 46 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Thirteen Crime Stories From Latin America (2014) — Redacteur — 87 exemplaren

McSweeney's Issue 39 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) (2011) — Redacteur — 85 exemplaren

This Bridge Will Not Be Gray (2015) 81 exemplaren

The Best of McSweeney's, Volume 2 (2005) 81 exemplaren

The Eyes & the Impossible (2023) 80 exemplaren

McSweeney's Issue 41 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) (2012) — Redacteur — 76 exemplaren

Cold Fusion (HOW) (2009) — Auteur — 74 exemplaren

McSweeney's Issue 2: Blues/Jazz Odyssey (1999) — Redacteur — 70 exemplaren

McSweeney's Issue 1: Gegenshein (1998) — Redacteur — 66 exemplaren

McSweeney's Issue 48 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) (2014) — Editor/Contributor — 62 exemplaren

McSweeney's Issue 42 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Multiples (2013) — Redacteur — 61 exemplaren

McSweeney's Issue 54 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): The End of Trust (2018) 57 exemplaren

McSweeney's Issue 49 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Cover Stories (2017) — Redacteur — 52 exemplaren

Out of Exile: Narratives from the Abducted and Displaced People of Sudan (2008) — Interviews & Introduction — 52 exemplaren

McSweeney's Issue 47 (2014) — Redacteur — 52 exemplaren

McSweeney's Issue 50 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) (2017) — Redacteur — 50 exemplaren

McSweeney's Issue 44 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) (2013) — Redacteur — 48 exemplaren

McSweeney's Issue 43 (2013) — Redacteur — 47 exemplaren

The Better of McSweeney's, Volume 2 (2010) 47 exemplaren

Faraway Things (2021) 46 exemplaren

The Museum of Rain (2021) 41 exemplaren

We Became Jaguars (2021) 40 exemplaren

Abner & Ian Get Right-Side Up (2019) 40 exemplaren

Most of the Better Natural Things in the World (2019) 39 exemplaren

Ungrateful Mammals (2017) 34 exemplaren

The Unforbidden Is Compulsory, or Optimism (2004) 33 exemplaren

McSweeney's Issue 51 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) (2017) — Redacteur — 32 exemplaren

McSweeney's Issue 53 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) (2018) 30 exemplaren

Away We Go: A Screenplay (Vintage) (2009) 28 exemplaren

Better than Fiction 2: True adventures from 30 great fiction writers (Lonely Planet Travel Literature) (2015) 27 exemplaren

Children and the Tundra (HOW) (2011) 25 exemplaren

Understanding the Sky (2016) 23 exemplaren

It Is Right to Draw Their Fur: Animal Renderings by Dave Eggers (2010) 23 exemplaren

Moving the Millers' Minnie Moore Mine Mansion: A True Story (2023) 22 exemplaren

The Lights and Types of Ships at Night (2020) 21 exemplaren

We Like You So Much and Want to Know You Better (2013) 18 exemplaren

The Story of Captain Nemo (Save the Story) (2013) 18 exemplaren

How the Water Feels to the Fishes (2007) 16 exemplaren

McSweeney's Issue 70 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) (2023) 15 exemplaren

Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape (2007) 12 exemplaren

The Voice of Witness Reader: Ten Years of Amplifying Unheard Voices (2015) 11 exemplaren

Up the Mountain Coming Down Slowly {story} (2011) 9 exemplaren

The Executioner's Song 9 exemplaren

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 7 exemplaren

Mistakes We Knew We Were Making (2001) 6 exemplaren

Visitants (2013) 6 exemplaren

McSweney's No. 48 4 exemplaren

The Honor of Your Presence 4 exemplaren

Le Believer (2012) 4 exemplaren

Soyons des jaguars (2021) 3 exemplaren

Soren's Seventh Song (2024) 3 exemplaren

The Alaska of Giants and Gods 3 exemplaren

McSweeney's Books Sampler No. 1 3 exemplaren

Unfamiliar - A Twice-Monthly Magazine of Different Fiction / September 1-15/05 / (2005) 2 exemplaren

The 826CHI compendium. V 5 (2016) 2 exemplaren

4x Dave Eggers: Includes: What Is the What; How We Are Hungry; You Shall Know Our Velocity; A Heartbreaking Work of… (2009) 1 exemplaar

Chapter One (in McSweeney's 38 - EGGERS) 1 exemplaar

The Eyes & The Impossible 1 exemplaar

Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern. Issue Five (5). Sometimes Not Believing How Great This All Is. 1 exemplaar

Todd: A Show for Television (in McSweeney's 2 - EGGERS) 1 exemplaar

Every (deutsche Ausgabe) : Roman (2021) 1 exemplaar

McSweeney's Issue 40 by Unknown [McSweeney's, 2012] Paperback [Paperback] 1 exemplaar

De ogen en het onmogelijke (2023) 1 exemplaar

The Wapshot Scandal 1 exemplaar

McSweeney's Issue 26: featuring New Stories from our Shores (Part 2 of 3) 1 exemplaar

Hologram for the King,A 1 exemplaar

McSweeney's Issue 26: featuring New Stories from Overseas (Part 1 of 3) 1 exemplaar

The Best We Have: The Blurbs of Dave Eggers 1 exemplaar

Dave Eggers: The Heart of the Matter (MONO.KULTUR, #25) 1 exemplaar

Bohaterowie pogranicza (2017) 1 exemplaar

First Exposures: The First Ten Years 1 exemplaar

McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, No. 13: An Assorted Sampler of North American Comic Drawings, Strips, (1st First… 1 exemplaar

SIGNED Dave Eggers HOW WE ARE HUNGRY Stories 2003 McSweeney's Books, CA 1stEd (2003) 1 exemplaar

When Marlana Pulled a Thread (2011) 1 exemplaar

Shadow Show #4 (2015) 1 exemplaar

2018 1 exemplaar

After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned (in Speaking with the Angel - HORNBY) 1 exemplaar

Stories Upon Stories (2016) 1 exemplaar

Phoenix 1 exemplaar

Theo (in The Book of Other People - SMITH) 1 exemplaar

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Gangbare naam: Eggers, Dave
Officiële naam: Eggers, David
Geboortedatum: 1970-03-12
Geslacht: male
Nationaliteit: USA
Geboorteplaats: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Woonplaatsen: Chicago, Illinois, USA
San Francisco, California, USA
Opleiding: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Beroepen: writer
author
novelist
publisher
Relaties: Vida, Vendela (wife)
Eggers, Christopher (brother)
Demby, Constance (aunt)
Organisaties: McSweeney's
826 Valencia
American Academy of Arts and Letters (2015)
Prijzen en onderscheidingen: Addison M. Metcalf Award in Literature (2001)
TED Prize (2008)
Dayton Literary Peace Prize
Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Award
Utne Reader 50 Visionaries Who Are Changing the World (2008)
Brown University honorary Doctor of Letters (2005)
Ontwarringsbericht: Please do not combine this author page with "Doris Haggis-On-Whey" books. Dr. and Mr. Doris Haggis-on-Whey are a joint pseudonym of Dave Eggers and his brother Christopher Eggers.

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Besprekingen

De ogen en het onmogelijke door Dave Eggers

Prima geschreven 'sprookje/avontuur over een hond die meer wil dan gewoon op zijn plek blijven. Zijn goedheid wordt hem ook bijna fataal. Leuke literatuur voor kinderen onder de 14 die even willen wegdromen in een fictieve wereld van communicerende en denkende dieren. Een wereld die laat zien dat niet iedereen gebaat is bij verandering en soms gewoon tevreden is met wat men heeft.

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Gert_Van_Bunderen | Aug 28, 2023 |

U zult versteld staan van onze beweeglijkheid! door Dave Eggers

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Honisoitquimalypense | 40 andere besprekingen | Nov 1, 2022 |

Het Alles, of Eindelijk orde op zaken, of De laatste… door Dave Eggers

Het Alles. Door: Dave Eggers.

Het Alles, De Every, is het vervolg op De Cirkel; het boek én het techbedrijf. De Cirkel is gefusioneerd met het grootste e-commercebedrijf en heeft nu een nieuwe alles overkoepelende naam (en logo): Het Alles.

Dave Eggers speelt het klaar om dit vervolg nog beter en angstaanjagender te maken dan het origineel. Hij houdt ons een spiegel voor en geeft ons een kijkje in een mogelijke toekomst. Dat doet hij op een luchtige, aangenaam lezende, pageturner manier.

Delaney Wells is het hoofdpersonage, in alles een tegenstander van De Every. Zij wil hen echt kapot maken en ziet daar maar één mogelijkheid toe: een felbegeerde baan bij hen bemachtigen en hen van binnenuit vernietigen (kudos voor Delaney).

Dit is een boek dat je volledig in zijn greep krijgt: je leest het, leest meer, droomt er van, praat er met iedereen over; het maakt je bang en doet je nadenken over de wereld om je heen. En je supportert zo hard voor Delaney…

Ik ben blij dat er nog papieren boeken verschijnen, met een boodschap en met meer dan 400 pagina’s. Dit is fictie die leest als mogelijke non-fictie.

De meest aanjagende dystopie is er één van Eggers of Atwood: ogenschijnlijk ver weg maar bij nader inzien al akelig dichtbij (smartspeakers). Verontrustend goed; het boek, niet de toekomst.… (meer)

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