Dave Eggers, the award-winning author and Pulitzer Prize finalist best known for A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, a lighthearted, fictionalized chronicle of the period following the death of his parents. His other works include Zeitoun, a nonfiction account of a Syrian-American immigrant’s experiences in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, and What Is the What, a finalist for the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award.