David Foster Wallace

David Foster Wallace (born February 21, 1962 in Ithaca, New York) is an American novelist, and short story writer. He graduated from Amherst College in 1986 and from the University of Arizona. He is a recipient of the MacArthur Foundation "genius grant" (1997), for his second novel, Infinite Jest. He taught at Illinois State University for most of the 1990s. In the fall of 2002, he began teaching at Pomona College as the Roy E. Disney '51 Endowed Professor of Creative Writing and Professor of English.

See also

• Hysterical realism