David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace was born on February 21, 1962, in Ithaca New, York, where his father James Wallace was a graduate student of philosophy at Cornell. After earning his degree, James moved his family to Champagne-Urbana, Illinois where he was offered a professorship at the University of Illinois. Sally Foster, David Foster Wallace's mother, earned a graduate English degree in Illinois and was, in the fashion of Avril Incandenza in Wallace's Infinite Jest, an avid (and rabid) grammarian,...