![]() When Eggers was still a child, the family moved to the suburb of Lake Forest, near Chicago, where he attended public high school and was a classmate of actor Vince Vaughn. His father was Protestant and his mother was Catholic. Eggers (1936–1991), was an attorney, while his mother, Heidi McSweeney Eggers (1940–1992), was a school teacher. His writing has appeared in several magazines.Įggers was born in Boston, Massachusetts, one of four siblings. ![]() ![]() Eggers is also the founder of Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, a literary journal a co-founder of the literacy project 826 Valencia 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. He wrote the 2000 best-selling memoir A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. Postmodern literature, post-postmodern, new sincerityĭave Eggers (born March 12, 1970) is an American writer, editor, and publisher. University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign ![]()
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