
Author Dave Eggers
After co-writing the screenplay for Where the Wild Things Are and writing a novelization, Dave Eggers has signed a movie deal for Zeitoun, his August book about the aftermath of Katrina, and how a Syrian-American resident of New Orleans was arrested and falsely accused of being a terrorist. Eggers, 39, who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and is best-known for his memoir, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius... Ref. Source 5