Dave Eggers is the author of many books, among them Contrapposto,The Eyes and the Impossible,The Circle, The Monk of Mokha, Heroes of the Frontier, A Hologram for the King, and What Is the What. He is the founder of McSweeney’s, an independent publishing company, and co-founder of 826 Valencia, a youth writing center that has inspired over 70 similar organizations worldwide. Eggers is winner of the American Book Award, the Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Award for Education, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the TED Prize, and has been a finalist for the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He is the 2024 John Newbery Medalist, for the most distinguished contribution to children's literature for The Eyes and the Impossible. Eggers is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Eggers spent time in various Chicago art schools in the 1980s and 90s, and made his living as a designer and cartoonist for much of the 1990s. For a time he wrote about art for SF Weekly, the New Art Examiner, Frieze and Artforum, and in books about Thomas Demand, Marcel Dzama and John Currin. At the ripe age of 40, Eggers began drawing and painting again, with the help of Noah and Kris Lang, proprietors of Electric Works gallery in San Francisco. The Langs have for 15 years now sold Eggers’s artwork to raise money for ScholarMatch and other nonprofits, giving him a reason and an excuse to create pictures of immeasurable profundity, many of them involving diffident mammals and tertiary Biblical figures. Eggers’s artwork and book designs have been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, the Nevada Museum of Art, the Biennial of the Americas, the Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum at the Smithsonian, and numerous other galleries and art spaces. In 2025, with JD Beltran, he co-founded Art + Water, a nonprofit visual arts education and exhibition space on San Francisco’s waterfront.

Dave Eggers is represented by Electric Works, a gallery in San Francisco.  For original art inquiries, please contact noah [at] sfelectricworks [dot] com.

The proceeds of all art sales go to benefit ScholarMatch, a San Francisco-based nonprofit that supports first-generation and low-income students in graduating from college and entering meaningful careers, as well as to the International Library of Young Authors, where the collected work of young people from all over the globe, ages 6-18, finds its first home.