From the book's blurb:

"Before he embarked on his literary career, Dave Eggers was classically trained as a draftsman and painter. He spent many years working as a professional illustrator and graphic designer before turning to writing full-time. More recently, he has returned to visual art, with the results exhibited in galleries and museums across the United States.

Usually involving the pairing of an animal with plaintive or biblical text, his pieces form wry, oddly anthropomorphic tableaux—an entertaining and eccentric body of work from one of today’s most innovative culture makers.

Dave Eggers is the author of What Is the What, winner of France’s Prix Médicis and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; Zeitoun, winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the American Book Award; A Hologram for the King, a finalist for the National Book Award; and Heroes of the Frontier, which has won no awards at all—though the author still likes it a lot.

He is the founder of McSweeney’s, a publishing company that produces a literary quarterly, and Voice of Witness, a nonprofit book series that uses oral history to illuminate human rights crises around the world. Eggers also cofounded 826 National, a network of seven writing and tutoring centers in the U.S., and ScholarMatch, a college access nonprofit to which all proceeds from this book are directed."