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David Stuart MacLean is an American writer. He is the author of The Answer to the Riddle Is Me, a memoir of his mefloquine-induced delirium and amnesia.[1][2][3][4]
MacLean has a Ph.D. in Literature/Creative Writing from The University of Houston, an M.F.A. from New Mexico State University and he was a Fulbright scholar in India. He won a PEN/America Center award in 2011 as the Best Emerging Writer in Non-Fiction.[5] His essays and stories have appeared in The New York Times,[6] The Guardian,[7] Ploughshares,[8] Bennington Review,[9] Guernica,[10] and the radio program This American Life.[11] MacLean is a visiting faculty member of the creative writing program at the University of Chicago.[12] He has been a guest on Duncan Trussell's podcast, The Duncan Trussell Family Hour.[13] In 2021, he published the novel How I Learned to Hate in Ohio with The Overlook Press.
He lives in Chicago.