Dave Eggers - The Circle

Dave Eggers grew up near Chicago and graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the founder of McSweeney’s, an independent publishing house in San Francisco that produces books, a quarterly journal of new writing ( McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern ), and a monthly magazine, The Believer . McSweeney’s publishes Voice of Witness, a nonprofit book series that uses oral history to illuminate human rights crises around the world. In 2002, he cofounded 826 Valencia, a nonprofit youth writing and tutoring center in San Francisco’s Mission District. Sister centers have since opened in seven other American cities under the umbrella of 826 National, and like-minded centers have opened in Dublin, London, Copenhagen, Stockholm, and Birmingham, Alabama, among other locations. His work has been nominated for the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and has won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, France’s Prix Médicis, Germany’s Albatross Prize, the National Magazine Award, and the American Book Award. Eggers lives in Northern California with his family.

Other titles by Dave Eggers available in eBook format

A Hologram for the King • 978-1-938073-31-1

How We Are Hungry • 978-0-307-42630-7

What Is the What • 978-0-307-39036-3

The Wild Things • 978-0-307-47756-9

You Shall Know Our Velocity • 978-0-307-42608-6

Zeitoun • 978-0-307-73943-8

The Circle

A Hologram for the King

What Is the What

You Shall Know Our Velocity!

How We Are Hungry

How the Water Feels to the Fishes

Zeitoun

The Wild Things

Surviving Justice: America’s Wrongfully Convicted and Exonerated

Teachers Have It Easy: The Big Sacrifices and Small Salaries of America’s Teachers

The Best American Nonrequired Reading

The Best of McSweeney’s

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Copyright © 2013 by Dave Eggers

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental .

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ISBN: 978-0-385-35139-3

eBook ISBN: 978-0-385-35140-9

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