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Dave Eggers
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Went to Lake Forest High School with
Vince Vaughn
.
He only allowed his McSweeney's-published first edition of You Shall Know Our Velocity to be sold at independent bookstores.
Founded and edits Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, a literary journal of wildly fluctuating style and focus.
In Feb. 2004 it became known that Eggers wrote anonymous rave reviews about his own books at online stores like Amazon to push sales.
The New York Times book review of his latest book, How We Are Hungry, calls him "the magnetic center of a literary counterestablishment."
Is a fan of the late
Donald Barthelme
and has contributed introductions to some of Barthelme's books.
When he was a child,
Kathryn Joosten
hung the wallpaper in his bedroom in Lake Forest, Illinois.
Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors". New Revision Series, vol. 138, pages 132-134. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005.
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