A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius.
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He was warm, partly because he had on many layers, and partly because boys whoa re part wolf and part wind do not get cold.
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Birth: | 12th March, 1970 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Editor, Novelist, Philanthropist, Publisher, Screenwriter |
Dave Eggers was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He is an American editor, publisher, philanthropist, novelist and screenwriter. He is known for the best-selling memoir A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and for his subsequent work as a novelist and screenwriter. In 2002, Eggers published his first novel, You Shall Know Our Velocity. He began writing as a Salon.com editor and founded Might magazine, while also writing a comic strip called Smarter Feller for SF Weekly. He was one of three 2008 TED Prize recipients. In 2005, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters from Brown University. He has since published a collection of short stories, How We Are Hungry. Eggers published his novel of the Great Recession and late 2000s financial crisis, A Hologram for the King, in July 2012. A new novel, titled Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?, was published in June 2014.
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