BIOGRAPHY FELLOW 2011 – 2012

D.T. Max

For a biography of David Foster Wallace

D.T. Max is a staff writer for The New Yorker. His previous book, The Family That Couldn’t Sleep, was a scientific and cultural study of prion diseases, published in 2006. As a Leon Levy fellow he completed the first biography of David Foster Wallace, Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story, published by Viking in 2012, a New York Times bestseller named by several critics as one of the best books of the year.