Dave Eggers' first splash in publishing was a big one: the audaciously titled A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. Published in 2000, the book caught the attention of the media, and soon critical praise was being heaped upon the book's author, an...

An author who has nurtured young writers and a doctor who has pushed nations to share disease information in hopes of combating illness are among six people named Heinz Award winners on Wednesday.The annual $250,000 prize is given to people who make notable contributions in...

Dave Eggers in the flesh? The literary pied piper appears at the 92nd Street Y with 30-year-old Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Sudanese refugee Valentino Achak Deng (phew!)—the subject of Mr. Eggers’ fictional biography, What Is the What, currently sitting on our nightstand propping...

October 18, 1999, p. 212 Matt Haber, who has a mind like a thousand flypapers tangled in a black hole, did us the service of finding the old New Yorker tale of Dave Eggers' loss of a benefit's worth of money years before NKotB's n+1...

Lethem? I just met him! Much has been written about the fact that Brooklyn has more writers per square block than any other place in America (though not more than County Donegal in Ireland; all named McCourt) and it follows that a Brooklyn book festival...