The novelist David Foster Wallace was obsessed with good writing, and taught students how to write well at two universities. He had his own takes on the timeless debates of grammar, and could hold court on the rather idiosyncratic rationales behind his beliefs. Wallace's Biographer, D.T. Max, profiles the relationship between Wallace and Bryan Gardner, editor of The Dictionary of Modern American Usage, in this New Yorker blog post. D.F.W.’S Favorite Grammarian The New Yorker, December 11, 2013. If you are interested in David Foster Wallace and Grammar, you may want to take a look at this Language Hat post, which offers evidence and analysis which suggests that he didn't quite know what he was talking about.
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