Dave Eggers

David Suchet (right) as detective Hercule Poirot in an adaptation of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express. Acorn Media hide caption

An employee prepares an order at Amazon's fulfillment center in San Bernardino, Calif. Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images hide caption

One bookseller says of the new Amazon Source program to sell Kindle e-readers: "That's not cooperation. That's being complicit in your execution." David McNew/Getty Images hide caption

Michael Hastings, who wrote a candid profile of Gen. Stanley McChrystal for Rolling Stone, died in June in a car crash in Los Angeles. He was 33. Paul Morigi/Getty Images for The Guardian hide caption

Author Tom Clancy, seen in 2004, was an insurance agent before publishing The Hunt For Red October in 1984. Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images hide caption

Dave Eggers at the 2009 National Book Awards in New York. Tina Fineberg/AP hide caption

Marcella Hazan and her husband, Victor, in the kitchen of their home in Longboat Key, Fla. Laura Krantz/NPR hide caption

Shakespeare's handwriting may offer clues to a mysterious passage in Thomas Kyd's Spanish Tragedy. Hulton Archive/Getty Images hide caption

Author Louise Erdrich, seen here in May 2008, has won the National Book Award for her novel, The Round House. Dawn Villella/AP hide caption