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Oct 20, 2002 · Investigators at the Yolo County coroner’s office classified it as a suicide. “Velocity” is dedicated to Beth.
Eggers's sister Beth died by suicide in November 2001. Eggers briefly spoke about his sister's death during a 2002 fan interview for McSweeney's. Eggers attended the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, intending to obtain a degree in journalism.
In Lake Forest, Illinois, Dave Eggers and his siblings, Bill, Beth and Toph (who is 13 years younger than his next-eldest sibling, Dave) endure the sudden death of their father due to lung cancer. Their mother dies a month later from stomach cancer after a long struggle.
- Dave Eggers
- 2000
Dec 29, 2009 · Then, in November 2001, Beth Eggers committed suicide. Eggers has never talked about his sister’s death. But it seems telling that he’s opted to write two books since in which trust has...
Mar 7, 2010 · His parents were in their 50s when they died; his older sister, Beth, killed herself when she was 33. "Having lost people when they were young, you feel intimately acquainted with mortality, I...
Feb 20, 2000 · His family had its own secrets: his father's alcoholism and violent outbursts, his mother's consequent martyrdom, which Eggers and his sister half believe caused her cancer.
Feb 10, 2000 · It is the story of how both of his parents died of cancer in the space of five weeks, leaving Mr. Eggers, then just out of college and as devoted to having a good time as to anything, to raise...
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