Born in Ithaca, [[New York]], Wallace was a [[tennis]] player and majored in [[English]] and philosophy. Aside from writting novels, he wrote short stories in [[magazine]]s such as Playboy, The Paris Review, The New Yorker and others. Wallace has written some nonfiction. He covered [[Senator]] [[John McCain]]'s 2000 [[President]]ial [[campaign]] and the [[September 11, 2001 attacks]] for [[Rolling Stone]]. In the November 2007 issue of Atlantic Monthly, Wallace questioned whether terrorist attacks were inavoidable "without subverting the very principles that make [America] worth protecting?"<ref>http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200711/wallace-safety</ref> | Born in Ithaca, [[New York]], Wallace was a [[tennis]] player and majored in [[English]] and philosophy. Aside from writting novels, he wrote short stories in [[magazine]]s such as Playboy, The Paris Review, The New Yorker and others. Wallace has written some nonfiction. He covered [[Senator]] [[John McCain]]'s 2000 [[President]]ial [[campaign]] and the [[September 11, 2001 attacks]] for [[Rolling Stone]]. In the November 2007 issue of Atlantic Monthly, Wallace questioned whether terrorist attacks were inavoidable "without subverting the very principles that make [America] worth protecting?"<ref>http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200711/wallace-safety</ref> |