Dave Eggers, National Book Festival
Author Dave Eggers speaks at the 18th annual Library of Congress National Book Festival at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington D.C. on Saturday, September 1, 2018. Dave Eggers is the founder of McSweeney's, an independent publishing house in San Francisco that produces books, a quarterly journal of new writing and a monthly magazine. In 2002, Eggers co-founded 826 Valencia, a nonprofit youth writing and tutoring center in San Francisco that has opened offices worldwide. Eggers's work has been nominated for the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and has won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, France's Prix Medicis, Germany's Albatross Prize, the National Magazine Award and the American Book Award. His new book, "The Monk of Mokha", is the true story of a young Yemeni American man, raised in San Francisco, who dreams of resurrecting the ancient art of Yemeni coffee but finds himself trapped in Sana'a by civil war. (Photo by Jeff Malet)