Dave Eggers is the author of many books, among them Newbery Medal winner 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, a nonprofit, independent publishing company based in San Francisco that produces books, a humor website, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, and The Believer and Illustoria magazines. He is also the co-founder of 826 Valencia, a youth writing center that has inspired over 70 similar organizations worldwide. He recently opened The International Library of Youth Writing in San Francisco, which celebrates the work of these youth writing centers. 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.