![]() ![]() Wallace published Infinite Jest in 1996 and was awarded the MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship the following year. During the on/off relationship that ensued, he was physically violent. In the early 1990s he became obsessed with the writer Mary Karr, stalking her and threatening to kill her husband. He taught English and creative writing at Emerson College, Illinois State University, and Pomona College. ![]() In 1989 he spent four months going through drug and alcohol detox at a psychiatric hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts. It was also around this time that Wallace began writing Infinite Jest. That year he enrolled in the philosophy PhD program at Harvard, but soon dropped out. He was a joint major in English and philosophy at Amherst College, and his senior honors thesis for English became his first novel, The Broom in the System, which was published in 1987, the same year he graduated from the MFA program in creative writing from the University of Arizona. Like several of the characters in Infinite Jest, he was a competitive junior tennis player. David Foster Wallace was the child of two professors who grew up in Illinois. ![]()
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