PROVIDENCE — Award-winning author Dave Eggers will deliver the baccalaureate address to the graduating seniors at Brown University on May 24.

Eggers, who received an honorary degree from Brown in 2005, will speak at 3 p.m. in the First Baptist Church in America.

The speech precedes the university’s 240th commencement exercises, on May 25, during which actor and filmmaker Robert Redford will receive an honorary degree.

Eggers founded McSweeney’s, a publishing house in San Francisco that publishes a quarterly literary magazine. He is the author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, a 2000 memoir about raising his younger brother after both their parents died of cancer within weeks of each other. The book was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in 2001.

He has since written You Shall Know Our Velocity!, a work of fiction that won the 2003 Independent Book Award, and What is the What, a fictional tale based on the experience of a Sudanese refugee.

During commencement, Brown will award honorary degrees to seven people. They are author Edwidge Danticat, choreographer Judith Jamison, lawyer and retiring university trustee Matthew J. Mallow, National University of Singapore President Shih Choon Fong, literary agent and retiring university trustee Wendy J. Strothman, planetary geophysicist Maria T. Zuber, and Redford.