Dave Eggers is an American novelist and journalist. His books, include The Circle, The Monk of Mokha, A Hologram for the King, and What Is the What, winner of France’s Prix Médicis Etranger. He is the founder of McSweeney’s Publishing and co-founder of Voice of Witness, a book series that uses oral history to illuminate human rights crises. He also co-founded 826 Valencia, a youth writing center which has inspired 75 similar programmes around the world. He has won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Award. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.