---
name: "Dave Eggers"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/dave-eggers"
fi1m_id: "dave-eggers"
imdb_id: "nm1101630"
tmdb_id: 84414
wikidata_id: "Q589497"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "12 March 1970"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T23:03:07.184274+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Dave Eggers

## Identity

Dave Eggers

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/dave-eggers
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** dave-eggers
- **IMDb ID:** nm1101630
- **TMDB ID:** 84414
- **Wikidata ID:** Q589497
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Eggers, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q589497, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1101630/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/84414

Writer. Born 12 March 1970 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 12 March 1970, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Eggers, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q589497, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1101630/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/84414

## Coming up

- *The Comebacker* (2027-07-29), Short Story

## Streaming the US now

- **Hulu:** [*Where the Wild Things Are*](https://film.one/film/where-the-wild-things-are.md) (80)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Dave Eggers is an American writer and screenwriter. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1970, he first gained prominence with his 2000 memoir *A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius*.

Eggers co-wrote the screenplay for *Where the Wild Things Are* (2009) with director Spike Jonze. He also wrote the screenplay for *Away We Go* (2009) with his wife, writer Vendela Vida, and has adapted several of his novels for film, including *A Hologram for the King* (2016) and *The Circle* (2017).

He founded the literary journal *Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern* and the publishing house McSweeney's.

*Sources: imdb.com, britannica.com, vulture.com, npr.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Where the Wild Things Are* (2009), Fi1m 80, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/where-the-wild-things-are.md)

## Complete filmography (15)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Comebacker* (2027), Short Story
- *Extrapolations* (2023), series, Story
- *Tomorrow Most Likely* (2021), Writer
- *The Circle* (2017), Novel, Screenplay
- *Your Mother and I* (2016), Original Story
- *A Hologram for the King* (2016), Novel
- *Francis* (2013), Writer
- *Promised Land* (2012), Story
- *American Teacher* (2011), Producer
- *Where the Wild Things Are* (2009), Screenplay — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/where-the-wild-things-are.md)
- *Away We Go* (2009), Writer
- *The Room Before and After - Part 1: James Franco* (2009), Director
- *The Room Before and After - Part 2: Creed Bratton* (2009), Director
- *The Room Before and After - Part 3: Maria Bamford* (2009), Director
- *Zeitoun*, Author

## Gallery

- ![Author Dave Eggers, Valentino Achak Deng, the subject of Eggers' novel What is the What, and KQED-FM talk show host Michael Krasny at a discussion of What is th (2008)](https://film.one/media/person/100504/gallery-0badba20f42f.jpg) Author Dave Eggers, Valentino Achak Deng, the subject of Eggers' novel What is the What, and KQED-FM talk show host Michael Krasny at a discussion of What is th (2008) — BrokenSphere, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Dave_Eggers%2C_Valentino_Deng%2C_Michael_Krasny_in_San_Mateo_10-1-08.JPG/1280px-Dave_Eggers%2C_Valentino_Deng%2C_Michael_Krasny_in_San_Mateo_10-1-08.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Dave Eggers](https://film.one/media/person/100504/gallery-36bf41ff1274.jpg) Dave Eggers — Rhododendrites, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Dave_Eggers_%2811483%29.jpg/1280px-Dave_Eggers_%2811483%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Dave Eggers BookExpo America 2018 at the Javits Convention Center in New York City.](https://film.one/media/person/100504/gallery-6e72a1ca8d02.jpg) Dave Eggers BookExpo America 2018 at the Javits Convention Center in New York City. — Rhododendrites, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Dave_Eggers_%2811488%29.jpg/1280px-Dave_Eggers_%2811488%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Dave Eggers BookExpo America 2018 at the Javits Convention Center in New York City.](https://film.one/media/person/100504/gallery-eb87fcbc39cf.jpg) Dave Eggers BookExpo America 2018 at the Javits Convention Center in New York City. — Rhododendrites, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Dave_Eggers_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Dave_Eggers_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Dave Eggers at the 2007 Brooklyn Book Festival.](https://film.one/media/person/100504/gallery-18ee82181eff.jpg) Dave Eggers at the 2007 Brooklyn Book Festival. — David Shankbone, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Dave_Eggers_by_David_Shankbone.jpg/1280px-Dave_Eggers_by_David_Shankbone.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Other awards — 7 won

- Newbery Medal 2024: Newbery Medal (won)
- Carl Sandburg Literary Award 2017: Carl Sandburg Literary Award (won)
- American Book Awards 2009: American Book Awards (won)
- Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community 2009: Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community (won)
- Prix Médicis étranger 2009: Prix Médicis étranger (won)
- TED Prize 2008: TED Prize (won)
- Heinz Award 2007: Heinz Award (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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