Dave Eggers

Dave Eggers (born in 1970) is an American writer. His first book was a memoir of his parents' death, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (2000). His first (and so far only) novel is You Shall Know Our Velocity (2002). He was a "a poorly paid Salon editor" and founding editor of Might magazine. He is currently the editor of McSweeney's, a quarterly literary journal, , an affiliated website, and is currently , about "the American political circus", on Salon.com.

Eggers is most closely identified with the literary scene in San Francisco, where he lives. He started 826 Valencia, (a front for a for students).

Eggers grew up in Lake Forest, Illinois and attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.