![]() Wallace sought an MFA because he wanted to make a living as a writer and knew, in order to do that, he had to teach, and teach he did. He graduated with high honors and his English thesis, a novel entitled The Broom of the System, was published in 1987 while he attended the University of Arizona MFA program for fiction. ![]() He attended college at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and majored in philosophy and English. Wallace played and excelled as a junior tennis player in Illinois, where he was regionally ranked. ![]() Coming from a household of intellectuals, Wallace's parents read literature to him and his sister from a young age. 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, later writing a textbook entitled Practically Painless English. After earning his degree, James moved his family to Champagne-Urbana, Illinois where he was offered a professorship at the University of Illinois. 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. ![]()
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