Tuesday, December 13, 2022

Fan Mail!

 Dave Eggers is one of the most amazing humans on the planet.... and I got a handwritten letter back from him in the mail last night!  I wrote him after the NYC Marathon because his children's book Her Right Foot served as some hearty inspiration for me for that raceTo learn more about Dave, check out this wonderful interview that Kelly Corrigan did with him here: https://www.pbs.org/video/dave-eggers-xfesuu/

Dave Eggers (born March 12, 1970) is an American writer, editor, and publisher. He wrote the 2000 best-selling memoir A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. Eggers is also the founder of Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, a literary journal; a co-founder of the literacy project 826 Valencia and the human rights nonprofit Voice of Witness; and the founder of ScholarMatch, a program that matches donors with students needing funds for college tuition. His writing has appeared in several magazines.


Here is what I printed out and sent him in the mail a few weeks ago: 












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