Lannan Foundation

David Foster Wallace (1962-2008) authored the novel Infinite Jest, as well as the essay collections Consider the Lobster and A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, and the story collection, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men. According to Wallace, "fiction's about what it is to be a fucking human being," expressing a desire to write "morally passionate, passionately moral fiction" that could help readers "become less alone inside." Mr. Wallace received a Lannan Literary Award for Fiction in 1996.

David Foster Wallace Bio and Cross Links

John O'Brien is the editor of the Dalkey Archive Press, one of the finest independent literary presses in the country.

John O'Brien Bio and Cross Links