Dave Eggers, author portrait
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Dave Eggers

DAVE EGGERS is the author of many books, among them The Circle, The Monk of Mokha, A Hologram for the King, What Is the What, and The Museum of Rain. He is the cofounder of 826 National, a network of youth writing centers, and Art + Water, a nonprofit visual arts hub on San Francisco’s waterfront. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Eggers has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and is the recipient of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Zeitoun and the Newbery Medal for The Eyes & the Impossible.



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Contrapposto
The Eyes and the Impossible
The Every
The Parade
The Captain and the Glory
The Lifters
The Monk of Mokha
Heroes of the Frontier
Up the Mountain Coming Down Slowly
Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?
The Circle
A Hologram for the King
Zeitoun
The Wild Things
What Is the What
How We Are Hungry
You Shall Know Our Velocity
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

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Books

Contrapposto
The Eyes and the Impossible
The Every
The Parade
The Captain and the Glory
The Lifters
The Monk of Mokha
Heroes of the Frontier
Up the Mountain Coming Down Slowly
Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?
The Circle
A Hologram for the King
Zeitoun
The Wild Things
What Is the What
How We Are Hungry
You Shall Know Our Velocity
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Events

Mon Jun 08 | 07:00 PM
SYMPHONY SPACE
2537 BROADWAY
NEW YORK, NY 10025-6990
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Around the World in 80 Books

On November 9, 2021, the Penguin Press will publish AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 BOOKS: A Literary Journey. 

Inspired by Jules Verne’s hero Phileas Fogg, author David Damrosch, chair of Harvard University’s department of comparative literature and founder of Harvard’s Institute for World Literature, set out to counter a pandemic’s restrictions on travel by exploring eighty exceptional books from around the globe. Following a literary itinerary from London to Venice, Tehran and points beyond, and via authors from Woolf and Dante to Nobel Prize–winners Orhan Pamuk, Wole Soyinka, Mo Yan, and Olga Tokarczuk, he explores how these works have shaped our idea of the world, and the ways in which the world bleeds into literature.

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