Explore Dave Eggers net worth, age, height, bio, birthday, wiki, and salary! American author and publisher who took home an award called the Pulitzer Prize for his 2000 memoir The Heartbreaking The Work Staggering Genius. Other Pulitzer Prize-winning books that span fiction and fiction include Zeitoun (2009) as well as What Is the What (2006). In this article, we will discover how old is Dave Eggers? Who is Dave Eggers dating now & how much money does Dave Eggers have?

NameDave Eggers
First NameDave
Last NameEggers
OccupationNovelist
BirthdayMarch 12
Birth Year1970
Place of BirthBoston
Home TownMassachusetts
Birth CountryUnited States
Birth SignPisces
Full/Birth Name
ParentsJohn K. Eggers, Heidi McSweeney Eggers
SiblingsChristopher Eggers, Beth Eggers, William D. Eggers
SpouseVendela Vida
Children(s)Not Available

Dave Eggers Biography

Dave Eggers is one of the most popular and richest Novelist who was born on March 12, 1970 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. He co-wrote the screenplay of Where the Wild Things Are together with He co-wrote the screenplay for Where the Wild Things Are with Spike Jonze

Dave Eggers (born March 12, 1970) is an American writer, editor, and publisher. He is married to writer Vendela Vida with whom he has two children. He wrote the best-selling memoir A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. Eggers is also the founder of McSweeney’s, 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. His writing has appeared in several magazines.

Might evolved out of the small San Francisco-based independent paper Cups, and gathered a loyal following with its irreverent humour and quirky approach to the issues and personalities of the day. An article purporting to be an obituary of former 1980s child star Adam Rich (originally intended to be Back to the Future star Crispin Glover, until Glover backed-out) garnered some national attention. The magazine regularly included humour pieces, and a number of essays and non-fiction pieces by seminal 1990s writers, including “Impediments to Passion”, an essay on sex in the AIDS era by David Foster Wallace.

The college studies he was pursuing were disrupted due to the deaths of his father and mother due to brain cancer and stomach and brain cancer, respectively. He was married to author Vendela Vida on the 23rd of March in 2003. Together, they had two children.

His wife and he co-wrote the screenplay for 2009’s film Away We Go.

Eggers was born in Boston, Massachusetts, one of four siblings. His father, John K. Eggers (1936–1991), was an attorney, while his mother, Heidi McSweeney Eggers (1940–1992), was a school teacher. His father was Protestant and his mother was Catholic. When Eggers was still a child, the family moved to the suburb of Lake Forest, near Chicago, where he attended high school and was a classmate of actor Vince Vaughn. Eggers attended the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, intending to get a degree in journalism. However, his studies were interrupted by the deaths of both of his parents: his father in 1991 from brain and lung cancer, and his mother in January 1992 from stomach cancer.

Dave Eggers Net Worth

Dave is one of the richest Novelist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Dave Eggers's net worth $8 Million. (Last Update: January 13, 2024)

He was briefly a student at his first year at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign before making the move in Berkeley, California. He later established Might Magazine and a non-profit tutoring service known as 826 Valencia.

Net Worth$8 Million
SalaryUnder Review
Source of IncomeNovelist
CarsNot Available
HouseLiving in own house.

Eggers founded McSweeney’s, an independent publishing house, named for his mother’s maiden name. The publishing house produces a quarterly literary journal, Timothy McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, first published in 1998; a monthly journal, The Believer, which debuted in 2003 and is edited by Eggers’s wife, Vendela Vida; and, from 2005 to 2012, a quarterly DVD magazine, Wholphin. Other works include The Future Dictionary of America, Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans, and “Dr. and Mr. Haggis-On-Whey”, all children’s books of literary nonsense, which Eggers writes with his younger brother and uses as a pseudonym.

Eggers’ first book was a memoir with fictional elements, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (2000), which focused on his struggle to raise his younger brother in San Francisco following the deaths of both of their parents. The book quickly became a bestseller and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. The memoir was praised for its originality, idiosyncratic self-referencing, and for several innovative stylistic elements. Early printings of the 2001 trade-paperback edition were published with a lengthy postscript entitled, Mistakes We Knew We Were Making.

Ethnicity, religion & political views

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However, as Eggers later recounted in his memoir, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, the magazine consistently struggled to make a profit, and finally ceased publication in 1997. An anthology of the best of Might magazine’s brief run, ‘Shiny Adidas Tracksuits and the Death of Camp’ and Other Essays from Might Magazine, was published in late 1998. By this time, Eggers was freelancing for Esquire magazine and continuing to work for Salon.

Who is Dave Eggers Dating?

According to our records, Dave Eggers married to Vendela Vida . As of January 13, 2024, Dave Eggers’s is not dating anyone.

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Eggers’s elder brother, Bill, is a researcher who has worked for several conservative think tanks, doing research promoting privatization. Eggers’s sister, Beth, died of suicide in November 2001. Eggers briefly spoke about his sister’s death during a 2002 fan interview for McSweeney’s.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Eggers began writing as a Salon.com editor and founded Might magazine in San Francisco in the early 1990s with David Moodie and Marny Requa, while also writing a comic strip called Smarter Feller (originally Swell) for SF Weekly.

In 2002, Eggers and educator Nínive Clements Calegari co-founded 826 Valencia, a nonprofit writing and tutoring center for kids ages 6–18 in San Francisco. It has since grown into six chapters across the United States: Los Angeles, New York City, Chicago, Ann Arbor, Michigan, Washington, D.C., and Boston, all under the auspices of the nonprofit organization 826 National.

Facts & Trivia

Dave Ranked on the list of most popular Novelist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Dave Eggers celebrates birthday on March 12 of every year.

In 2002, Eggers published his first fully fictional novel, You Shall Know Our Velocity, a story about a frustrating attempt to give away money to deserving people while haphazardly traveling the globe. An expanded and revised version was released as Sacrament in 2003. A version without the new material in Sacrament was created and retitled You Shall Know Our Velocity! for a Vintage imprint distribution. He has since published a collection of short stories, How We Are Hungry, and three politically themed serials for Salon.com.

What is Dave Eggers known for?

Dave Eggers is the author of many books, among them The Every, The Circle, The Monk of Mokha, A Hologram for the King, What Is the What, and The Museum of Rain.

What happened to Dave Eggers brother?

Instead, they lost both to cancer in a 32-day period, leaving Dave—in his early 20s, with deep misgivings and more than a few sobering mistakes—to don a superhero costume (De Facto Dad!) and steward his eight-year-old bro.

Are Dave Eggers and Robert Eggers related?

Dave does have three other siblings: Beth, William, and Christopher. He wrote about them in his autobiography A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. Robert has a brother, Max, who works with him on his films and has screenwriting credit on The Lighthouse. Robert Eggers and Dave Eggers are not related.

Is Dave Eggers still alive?

Dave Eggers
Period1993–present
Literary movementPostmodern literature, post-postmodern, new sincerity
SpouseVendela Vida
Children2

Where did Dave Eggers go to college?

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