Dave Eggers

The Profile

Dave Eggers is an American author known for blending humor, social critique, and inventive forms across memoir and fiction, from A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius to The Circle.

Founder of McSweeney’s; co-founder of 826 Valencia/826 National; A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius was a 2001 Pulitzer Prize finalist; The Circle was adapted into a 2017 film.

Three reviews trace Eggers from tragicomic memoir to tech-age realism. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is praised for its self-aware hilarity and grief. Your Fathers… is lauded for lucid, dialogue-only urgency about a disoriented generation. The Circle is framed as realism more than dystopia, dissecting transparency, influence, and control.