Story Hour in the Library featuring Dave Eggers

Reading - Literary | February 11 | 5-6 p.m. | Doe Library, 101 Doe--Morrison Library

Speaker/Performer: Dave Eggers

Sponsor: Library, The

Dave Eggers is the author of books including What Is the What, a finalist for the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award. That book gave birth to the Valentino Achak Deng Foundation, dedicated to building schools in Sudan, and run by Mr. Deng, a survivor of that country’s civil war. Eggers is the founder and editor of McSweeney’s, a publishing house based in San Francisco that produces a quarterly journal, monthly magazine The Believer, and Wholphin, a quarterly DVD of short films and documentaries. With Nínive Calegari he co-founded 826 Valencia, a nonprofit writing and tutoring center for youth in the Mission District of San Francisco. Local communities have since opened sister 826 centers across the country. In 2004, Eggers taught at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, and with Dr. Lola Vollen, he co-founded Voice of Witness, a series of books using oral history to illuminate human rights crises.

Event Contact: storyhour@berkeley.edu, 510-643-0397