David Foster Wallace (born February 21, 1962 in Philo, Illinois) is an American writer. He is a recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship, commonly known as the Genius Grant. He taught at Illinois State University for most of the 1990s. He then began teaching at Pomona College in the fall of 2002.
Fiction:
- The Broom of the System (1987)
- Girl with Curious Hair (1990)
- Infinite Jest (1996)
- Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (1999)
- Oblivion: Stories (2004)
- Signifying Rappers: Rap and Race In the Urban Present (1990), coauthored with Mark Costello
- A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again (1997)
- Up Simba! (2000)
- Everything and More (2003) (First hardcover ed.: ISBN 0393003388)
