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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
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11th September 2003: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
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Universal Pictures is in negotiations to pick up the rights
to Dave Eggers' best-selling autobiography, A Heartbreaking
Work of Staggering Genius. Boys Don't Cry helmer Kimberly Pierce
is attached to develop the project, which was adapted by Nick
Hornby and D.V. DeVincentis. The book, Eggers' first, was published
in 2000 and focuses on his life as a young adult. He was orphaned
at 22 when his mother died of stomach cancer only a month after
his father died. Left alone to care for his eight-year-old brother,
Eggers was forced to come up with innovative ways of child-rearing.
While worrying about welfare authorities and abusive baby sitters,
he co-founded the satirical San Francisco-based Might magazine
and unsuccessfully tried to get on MTV's The Real World.
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