WRITER

Dave Eggers

1970 - Today

Dave Eggers

Dave Eggers (born March 12, 1970) is an American writer, editor, and publisher. He wrote the 2000 best-selling memoir A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. Eggers is also the founder of Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, a literary journal; a co-founder of the literacy project 826 Valencia, co-founder of The Hawkins Project, and the human rights nonprofit Voice of Witness; and the founder of ScholarMatch, a program that matches donors with students needing funds for college tuition. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dave Eggers has received more than 1,914,504 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Dave Eggers is the 6,748th most popular writer (down from 5,810th in 2019), the 13,766th most popular biography from United States (down from 11,023rd in 2019) and the 1,006th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

1.9M
Page Views (PV)
38.46
Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
27
Languages Editions (L)
2.45
Effective Languages (L*)
4.00
Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

How We Are Hungry

American Psychological fiction, American Short stories

2004

You shall know our velocity

Philanthropists, Male friendship, Travel

In his first novel, Dave Eggers has written a moving and hilarious tale of two friends who fly around the world trying to give away a lot of money and free themselves from a profound loss. It reminds us once again what an important, necessary talent Dave Eggers is.From the Trade Paperback edition.

2002

What Is the What

United States in fiction, Sudanese in fiction, Sudan Civil War, 1983-2005

What Is the What is the epic novel based on the life of Valentino Achak Deng who, along with thousands of other children--the so-called Lost Boys--was forced to leave his village in Sudan at the age of seven and trek hundreds of miles by foot, pursued by militias, government bombers, and wild animals, crossing the deserts of three countries to find freedom. When he finally is resettled in the United States, he finds a life full of promise, but also heartache and myriad new challenges. Moving, suspenseful, and unexpectedly funny, What Is the What is an astonishing novel that illuminates the lives of millions through one extraordinary man.From the Trade Paperback edition.

2006

The Best of McSweeney's

American Short stories

2004

The Circle

multiple sclerosis, internet phobia, dystopia

When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world's most powerful internet company, she feels she's been given the opportunity of a lifetime. The Circle, run out of a sprawling California campus, links users' personal emails, social media, banking, and purchasing with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of civility and transparency. As Mae tours the open-plan office spaces, the towering glass dining facilities, the cozy dorms for those who spend nights at work, she is thrilled with the company's modernity and activity. There are parties that last through the night, there are famous musicians playing on the lawn, there are athletic activities and clubs and brunches, and even an aquarium of rare fish retrieved from the Marianas Trench by the CEO. Mae can't believe her luck, her great fortune to work for the most influential company in the world--even as life beyond the campus grows distant, even as a strange encounter with a colleague leaves her shaken, even as her role at the Circle becomes increasingly public. What begins as the captivating story of one woman's ambition and idealism soon becomes a heart-racing novel of suspense, raising questions about memory, history, privacy, democracy, and the limits of human knowledge.

2013

A heartbreaking work of staggering genius

Death, Brothers, Family

From Wikipedia: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (ISBN 0-330-48455-9) is a memoir by Dave Eggers released in 2000. It chronicles his stewardship of younger brother Christopher "Toph" Eggers following the cancer-related deaths of his parents. The book was an enormous commercial and critical success, reaching number one on The New York Times bestseller list and being nominated as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. Time magazine and several newspapers dubbed it "The Best Book of the Year". Critics praised the book for its wild, vibrant prose, and it was described as "big, daring [and] manic-depressive" by The New York Times. The book was chosen as the 12th best book of the decade by The Times

2000

Page views of Dave Eggers by language

Over the past year Dave Eggers has had the most page views in the English wikipedia edition with 189,223 views, followed by German (12,675), and Italian (11,712). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Hungarian (310.74%), Cornish (146.51%), and Simple English (139.39%)