The Washington Post – Valerie Strauss
“Eggers is a nationally renowned author of numerous books, including “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius,” “The Circle,” “The Monk of Mokha,” “What is the What,” and his newest, “What Can a Citizen Do?” In 2002, with educator Nínive Calegari, he founded 826 Valencia, a San Francisco nonprofit organization dedicated to helping kids learn to write, and it gave birth to a separate organization, 826 National, to help launch similar writing and tutoring programs in other cities.” (more)