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
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.
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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and Mistakes We Knew We Were Making (2000) 13,526 exemplaren, 211 besprekingen
Een hartverscheurend verhaal van duizelingwekkende genialiteit (2000) 2,404 exemplaren, 31 besprekingen
McSweeney's Issue 13 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): The Comics Issue (2004) — Redacteur — 1,292 exemplaren, 12 besprekingen
Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans: The Best of McSweeney's Humor Category (2004) — Editor & Introduction — 867 exemplaren, 16 besprekingen
Uw vaderen, waar zijn zij? en de profeten, leven zij voor eeuwig? (2014) 463 exemplaren, 28 besprekingen
McSweeney's Issue 15 (Mcsweeney's Quarterly Concern) (2005) — Redacteur — 458 exemplaren, 4 besprekingen
McSweeney's Issue 16 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) (2005) — Redacteur — 445 exemplaren, 4 besprekingen
McSweeney's Issue 18 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) / Wholphin No. 1 (2005) — Redacteur — 411 exemplaren, 2 besprekingen
McSweeney's Issue 14 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): McSweeney's at War for the Foreseeable Future and He's Never Been… (2004) — Redacteur — 400 exemplaren, 5 besprekingen
McSweeney's Issue 19 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Old Facts, New Fiction, & A Novella By T.C. Boyle (2006) — Redacteur — 399 exemplaren, 4 besprekingen
McSweeney's Issue 17 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Made to Look Like It Came In Your Mailbox (2005) 341 exemplaren, 5 besprekingen
McSweeney's Issue 22: Three Books Held Within By Magnets (2007) — Redacteur — 338 exemplaren, 4 besprekingen
McSweeney's Issue 21 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) (2006) — Redacteur — 331 exemplaren, 5 besprekingen
McSweeney's Issue 11 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): It Can Be Free (2003) — Redacteur — 323 exemplaren, 2 besprekingen
McSweeney's Issue 23 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Still Going Strong Like Castro (We Meant Ramón) (2007) — Redacteur — 294 exemplaren, 5 besprekingen
McSweeney's Issue 12: Unpublished, Unknown, and/or Unbelievable (2003) — Redacteur — 284 exemplaren, 4 besprekingen
McSweeney's Issue 24 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Trouble/Come Back, Donald Barthelme (2007) — Redacteur — 281 exemplaren, 5 besprekingen
Your Disgusting Head: The Darkest, Most Offensive and Moist Secrets of Your Ears, Mouth and Nose (How Books:… (2004) — Auteur — 268 exemplaren, 2 besprekingen
McSweeney's Issue 25 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) (2007) — Medewerker — 234 exemplaren, 5 besprekingen
McSweeney's Issue 27 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): With Lots of Things Like This/Autophobia (2008) — Medewerker — 216 exemplaren, 4 besprekingen
McSweeney's Issue 8 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) (2002) — Redacteur — 215 exemplaren, 2 besprekingen
McSweeney's Issue 6 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): We Now Know Who (2002) — Redacteur — 202 exemplaren, 5 besprekingen
McSweeney's Issue 9 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): We Feel This One Is More Urgent (2002) — Redacteur — 201 exemplaren, 2 besprekingen
Animals of the Ocean, in Particular the Giant Squid (HOW) (2006) — Auteur — 193 exemplaren, 5 besprekingen
McSweeney's Issue 30 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Rejoice! (2009) — Redacteur — 192 exemplaren, 6 besprekingen
McSweeney's Issue 26 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Three Part Book Set (2008) — Redacteur — 186 exemplaren, 4 besprekingen
McSweeney's Issue 29 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) (2008) — Redacteur — 181 exemplaren, 3 besprekingen
McSweeney's Issue 5 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Sometimes Not Believing How Great This All Is (2012) — Redacteur — 181 exemplaren, 2 besprekingen
McSweeney's Issue 31 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Vikings, Monks, Philosophers, Whores: Old Forms Unearthed (2009) 180 exemplaren, 4 besprekingen
McSweeney's Issue 7 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) (2001) — Redacteur — 177 exemplaren, 2 besprekingen
McSweeney's Issue 28 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) (2008) — Redacteur — 170 exemplaren, 6 besprekingen
McSweeney's Issue 4: Trying, Trying, Trying, Trying, Trying (2010) — Redacteur — 163 exemplaren, 3 besprekingen
McSweeney's Issue 33 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): The San Francisco Panorama (2009) — Redacteur — 139 exemplaren, 3 besprekingen
Surviving Justice: America's Wrongfully Convicted and Exonerated (2005) 135 exemplaren, 1 bespreking
McSweeney's Issue 35 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) (2010) — Redacteur — 115 exemplaren, 2 besprekingen
McSweeney's Issue 34 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) (2010) — Redacteur — 109 exemplaren, 2 besprekingen
McSweeney's Issue 38 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) (2011) — Editor/Contributor — 106 exemplaren, 4 besprekingen
McSweeney's Issue 45 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Hitchcock and Bradbury Fistfight in Heaven (2013) — Redacteur — 106 exemplaren, 5 besprekingen
McSweeney's Issue 37 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) (2011) — Redacteur — 101 exemplaren, 5 besprekingen
McSweeney's Issue 40 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) (2012) — Redacteur — 96 exemplaren, 2 besprekingen
McSweeney's Issue 46 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Thirteen Crime Stories From Latin America (2014) — Redacteur — 91 exemplaren, 5 besprekingen
McSweeney's Issue 39 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) (2011) — Redacteur — 85 exemplaren, 3 besprekingen
McSweeney's Issue 41 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) (2012) — Redacteur — 76 exemplaren, 2 besprekingen
McSweeney's Issue 48 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) (2014) — Editor/Contributor — 66 exemplaren, 2 besprekingen
McSweeney's Issue 54 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): The End of Trust (2018) 65 exemplaren, 3 besprekingen
McSweeney's Issue 42 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Multiples (2013) — Redacteur — 63 exemplaren, 2 besprekingen
McSweeney's Issue 49 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Cover Stories (2017) — Redacteur — 59 exemplaren, 3 besprekingen
McSweeney's Issue 50 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) (2017) — Redacteur — 56 exemplaren, 3 besprekingen
Out of Exile: Narratives from the Abducted and Displaced People of Sudan (2008) — Interviews & Introduction — 55 exemplaren
McSweeney's Issue 44 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) (2013) — Redacteur — 52 exemplaren, 3 besprekingen
McSweeney's Issue 51 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) (2017) — Redacteur — 35 exemplaren, 3 besprekingen
Better than Fiction 2: True adventures from 30 great fiction writers (Lonely Planet Travel Literature) (2015) 30 exemplaren
McSweeney's Issue 73 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Manifesto: A Collection of Manifestos (2024) 8 exemplaren
McSweeney's Issue 73 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Manifesto: A Collection of Manifestos 7 exemplaren, 1 bespreking
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 7 exemplaren
McSweeney's Books Sampler No. 1 3 exemplaren
The Alaska of Giants and Gods 3 exemplaren
Unfamiliar - A Twice-Monthly Magazine of Different Fiction / September 1-15/05 / (2005) 2 exemplaren
The Book Makers 1 exemplaar
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First Exposures: The First Ten Years 1 exemplaar
Theo (in The Book of Other People - SMITH) 1 exemplaar
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The Wapshot Scandal 1 exemplaar
Phoenix 1 exemplaar
2018 1 exemplaar
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- 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.
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The Circle: Theological undertones in "The Circle" in One LibraryThing, One Book (januari 2015)
The Circle: Introduce Yourself! in One LibraryThing, One Book (maart 2014)
The Circle: Explicit References to 1984 Could Have Helped in Book talk (februari 2014)
The Circle: General Likes/Dislikes in One LibraryThing, One Book (januari 2014)
The Circle: First Impressions in One LibraryThing, One Book (december 2013)
The Circle: A Horror Novel? in One LibraryThing, One Book (december 2013)
The Circle: How did it go? in One LibraryThing, One Book (december 2013)
The Circle: What rang true for you? in One LibraryThing, One Book (december 2013)
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