David Foster Wallace is the author of the novels Infinite Jest and The Broom of the System, as well as the story collection Girl with Curious Hair. His writings have appeared in Esquire, Harper’s, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Playboy, Premiere, Tennis, and other magazines. He is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, a Whiting Award, the Lannan Award for Fiction, the Paris Review Prize for humor, and an O Henry Award. He lives in Bloomington, Illinois.