Dave Eggers

Person · Open Library

Born

12 March 1970

Works

210

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1970-03-12

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

1,738

Total plays

59,173

Dave Eggers (born March 12, 1970) is an American writer, editor, and publisher. He is known for the best-selling memoir A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and for his more recent work as a screenwriter. He is also the co-founder of the literacy project 826 Valencia. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Dave+Eggers">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. A New Equation to Estimate Glomerular Filtration Rate

   · 2009 · cited 22,576x

2. Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger

   · 2016 · cited 11,699x

3. GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral

   · 2017 · cited 8,261x

4. Quantum supremacy using a programmable superconducting processor

   · 2019 · cited 6,685x

5. Neuroinflammation in Alzheimer's disease

   · 2015 · cited 5,654x

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Quotes

• “First of all: I am tired. I am true of heart! And also:You are tired.You are true of heart!”
• “Matter of fact, the first three or four chapters are all some of you might want to bother with. That gets you to page 123 or so, which is a nice length, a nice novella sort of length.”
• “‘Listen John—’ ‘Who’s John?’ ‘You’re John.’ ‘I’m John?’ ‘Yeah, I changed your name.’”
• “I am sorry Chris is late this morning. I could make something up about an appointment or a sickness, but the fact is that we woke up late. Go figure Best, Brother of Toph.”
• “Ooh, look at me, I’m Dave, I’m writing a book! With all my thoughts in it. La la la!”
• “. . . I’ll raise my arms and give you my chest and throat and wait, and I’ve been so old for so long for you, for you, I want it fast and right through me— Oh do it, do it you motherfuckers do it you fuckers finally, finally, finally.”

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