Dave Eggers, author portrait
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Dave Eggers

DAVE EGGERS is the author of many books, among them The Eyes and the Impossible, The CircleThe Monk of MokhaHeroes of the FrontierA Hologram for the King, and What Is the What. He is the founder of McSweeney’s, an independent publishing company, and co-founder of 826 Valencia, a youth writing center that has inspired over 70 similar organizations worldwide. Eggers is winner of the American Book Award, the Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Award for Education, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the TED Prize, and has been a finalist for the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He is the 2024 John Newbery Medalist, for the most distinguished contribution to children's literature for The Eyes and the Impossible. Eggers is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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The Eyes and the Impossible
The Parade
The Lifters
The Monk of Mokha
Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?
The Circle
A Hologram for the King
Zeitoun
The Wild Things
You Shall Know Our Velocity
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

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The Eyes and the Impossible
The Parade
The Lifters
The Monk of Mokha
Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?
The Circle
A Hologram for the King
Zeitoun
The Wild Things
You Shall Know Our Velocity
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Events

Sat Apr 05 | 10:00 AM
Labyrinth Books
122 Nassau St.
Princeton, NJ 08542
Google Map

Sat Apr 05 | 01:00 PM
Doylestown Books
16 S Main Street
Doylestown, PA 18901
Google Map

Sat Apr 05 | 04:00 PM
Children's Book World
17 Haverford Station Rd
Haverford, PA 19041
Google Map

Sun Apr 06 | 10:00 AM
Huxley & Hiro
419 N. Market Street
Wilmington, DE 19801
Google Map

Sun Apr 06
Charm City Books
426 W Franklin St
Baltimore, MD 21201
Google Map

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