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<p>Dave Eggers, best-selling author and founder of McSweeney&#8217;s, will be the featured author opening the Allan Hamilton Dickson Fund Spring Writers Series at Wilkes University on Feb. 28.</p><p>The reading, hosted by the Wilkes English Department, will be at 7:30 p.m. in the Dorothy Dickson Darte Center for the Performing Arts, 239 S River St, Wilkes-Barre. The event is free and open to the public. Earlier in the day, Eggers will participate in a student workshop.</p><p>Eggers is the author of 10 books, including &#8220;Your Fathers, Where Are They?&#8221; &#8220;And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?&#8221; &#8220;A Hologram for the King,&#8221; which was a finalist for the 2012 National Book Award and &#8220;A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius,&#8221; which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.</p><p>He is the founder of McSweeney&#8217;s, an independent publishing company based in San Francisco that produces books, a quarterly journal of new writing and a monthly magazine. McSweeney&#8217;s also publishes Voice of Witness, a nonprofit book series that uses oral history to illuminate human rights crises around the world.</p><p>Eggers is the co-founder of 826 National, a network of seven tutoring centers around the country, The network includes 826 Valencia, a writing lab for young people located in the Mission District of San Francisco as well as 826 branches in New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, Chicago, and Michigan. He also co-founded ScholarMatch, a nonprofit organization designed to connect students with resources, schools and donors to make college possible.</p><style>
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Dave Eggers to open spring writers series at Wilkes University