David Foster Wallace (born February 21, 1962 in Philo, Illinois) is an American writer. He graduated from Amherst College in 1986 and from the University of Arizona. He is a recipient of the MacArthur Foundation "genius grant". He taught at Illinois State University for most of the 1990s. He 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)

Non-Fiction:

• 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)