It was a pen name he started using to differentiate himself from another David Wallace who was publishing then, at the behest of his agent. So it's doubly odd and interesting that he did use it as a child.
On David Foster Wallace, "Viking Poem"
It was a pen name he started using to differentiate himself from another David Wallace who was publishing then, at the behest of his agent. So it's doubly odd and interesting that he did use it as a child.