His other senior thesis, in English, would later become his first novel. His philosophy senior thesis on modal logic, titled Richard Taylor's 'Fatalism' and the Semantics of Physical Modality (described in James Ryerson's 2008 New York Times essay "Consider the Philosopher" ) was awarded the Gail Kennedy Memorial Prize.
He attended his father's alma mater, Amherst College, and majored in English and philosophy, with a focus on logic and mathematics. As an adolescent, Wallace was a regionally ranked player. In fourth grade, Wallace moved to Urbana and attended Yankee Ridge school. As a young child, Wallace and his family lived in Champaign, Illinois. Wallace was born in 1962 in Ithaca, New York to James Donald Wallace and Sally Foster Wallace.
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