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Dave Eggers
Graduate Studies/Wattis Institute Lecture Series
Thursday, March 2, 7 pm

Timken Lecture Hall, San Francisco campus
Info: 415.551.9251

Dave Eggers is among the most celebrated of the emerging generation of American writers. His memoir, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, has been one of the most talked about and hotly debated books of the past decade. In addition to his own writing, Eggers is an inspiration and catalyst for the contemporary writing scene, especially in San Francisco where he lives. Besides editing the influential quarterly journal McSweeney's, Eggers is the founding director of 826 Valencia, a nonprofit educational center for Bay Area youth, which has spawned similar centers in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Seattle, and Ann Arbor. He is coeditor of Voice of Witness, a series of books about human rights issues around the world. Eggers is working on a novel about the civil war in Sudan.

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