Dave Eggers is the bestselling author of seven books, including A Hologram for the King , a finalist for the National Book Award; Zeitoun , winner of the American Book Award and Dayton Literary Peace Prize; and What Is the What , which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won France's Prix Medici . That book, about Valentino Achak Deng, a survivor of the civil war in Sudan, gave birth to the Valentino Achak Deng Foundation, which operates a secondary school in South...See more
Dave Eggers is the bestselling author of seven books, including A Hologram for the King , a finalist for the National Book Award; Zeitoun , winner of the American Book Award and Dayton Literary Peace Prize; and What Is the What , which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won France's Prix Medici . That book, about Valentino Achak Deng, a survivor of the civil war in Sudan, gave birth to the Valentino Achak Deng Foundation, which operates a secondary school in South Sudan run by Mr. Deng. Eggers is the founder and editor of McSweeney's, an independent publishing house based in San Francisco that produces a quarterly journal, a monthly magazine, The Believer: , a quarterly DVD of short films and documentaries, Wholphin , and an oral history series, Voice of Witness. In 2002, with Nínive Calegari he cofounded 826 Valencia, a nonprofit writing and tutoring center for youth in the Mission District of San Francisco. Local communities have since opened sister 826 centers in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Ann Arbor, Seattle, Boston, and Washington, D.C. Eggers is also the founder of ScholarMatch, a program that matches donors with students needing funds for college tuition. A native of Chicago, Eggers now lives in Northern California with his wife and two children. See less
The following is a personality profile of Dave Eggers based on his work.
Dave Eggers is social and boisterous.
He is confident, he is hard to embarrass and is self-confident most of the time. He is empathetic as well: he feels what others feel and is compassionate towards them. But, Dave Eggers is also calm-seeking: he prefers activities that are quiet, calm, and safe.
More than most people, his choices are driven by a desire for belongingness.
Considers helping others to guide a large part of what he does: he thinks it is important to take care of the people around him. He is also relatively unconcerned with achieving success: he makes decisions with little regard for how they show off his talents.
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