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David Stuart MacLean

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.

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. His essays and stories have appeared in ''The New York Times'', ''The Guardian'', Ploughshares, Bennington Review, Guernica, and the radio program ''This American Life''. MacLean is a visiting faculty member of the creative writing program at the University of Chicago. He has been a guest on Duncan Trussell's podcast, ''The Duncan Trussell Family Hour''. In 2021, he published the novel ''How I Learned to Hate in Ohio'' with The Overlook Press.

He lives in Chicago. Provided by Wikipedia