Person · Open Library
- Born
- 12 March 1970
- Works
- 210
Top works
- Moving the Millers' Minnie Moore Mine Mansion
- McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales
- Qué es el qué
- The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2006
- The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2005
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1970-03-12
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1,738
- Total plays
- 59,173
Dave Eggers (born March 12, 1970) is an American writer, editor, and publisher. He is known for the best-selling memoir A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and for his more recent work as a screenwriter. He is also the co-founder of the literacy project 826 Valencia. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Dave+Eggers">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- A New Equation to Estimate Glomerular Filtration Rate
· 2009 · cited 22,576x
- Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,699x
- GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral
· 2017 · cited 8,261x
- Quantum supremacy using a programmable superconducting processor
· 2019 · cited 6,685x
- Neuroinflammation in Alzheimer's disease
· 2015 · cited 5,654x
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Quotes
- “First of all: I am tired. I am true of heart! And also:You are tired.You are true of heart!”
- “Matter of fact, the first three or four chapters are all some of you might want to bother with. That gets you to page 123 or so, which is a nice length, a nice novella sort of length.”
- “‘Listen John—’ ‘Who’s John?’ ‘You’re John.’ ‘I’m John?’ ‘Yeah, I changed your name.’”
- “I am sorry Chris is late this morning. I could make something up about an appointment or a sickness, but the fact is that we woke up late. Go figure Best, Brother of Toph.”
- “Ooh, look at me, I’m Dave, I’m writing a book! With all my thoughts in it. La la la!”
- “. . . I’ll raise my arms and give you my chest and throat and wait, and I’ve been so old for so long for you, for you, I want it fast and right through me— Oh do it, do it you motherfuckers do it you fuckers finally, finally, finally.”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Eggers
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Boston
- Spouse
- Vendela Vida
- Occupation
- activist shareholder
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Movement
- postmodern literature
- Official website
- daveeggers.net
- Image
- Dave Eggers by David Shankbone.jpg
Show 5 more facts
- Commons category
- Dave Eggers
- date of birth
- 1970-03-12
- name in native language
- Dave Eggers
- member of
- American Academy of Arts and Letters
- start of work period
- 1996-00-00
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