- Went to Lake Forest High School with Vince Vaughn.
- He only allowed his McSweeney's-published first edition of You Shall Know Our Velocity to be sold at independent bookstores.
- Founded and edits Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, a literary journal of wildly fluctuating style and focus.
- In Feb. 2004 it became known that Eggers wrote anonymous rave reviews about his own books at online stores like Amazon to push sales.
- The New York Times book review of his latest book, How We Are Hungry, calls him "the magnetic center of a literary counterestablishment."
- Is a fan of the late Donald Barthelme and has contributed introductions to some of Barthelme's books.
- When he was a child, Kathryn Joosten hung the wallpaper in his bedroom in Lake Forest, Illinois.
- Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors". New Revision Series, vol. 138, pages 132-134. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005.
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