About the Author

Dave Eggers grew up in the Chicago area and graduated from University of Illinois. He went on to write varying works such as the best selling memoir, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (2000) which won the Pulitzer Price for General Non-Fiction. He continued with a few novels including, The Circle, in 2013.



When not writing, Eggers was helping found organizations such as:

• 826 Valencia, a nonprofit youth writing and tutoring center in San Francisco

• McSweeney's, an independent publishing house

• ScholarMatch, a program that matches donors with students seeing college tuition funds

Eggers has won many awards and has a achieved much in his 44 years of life. He now resides in Northern California with his family and continues to create his works.