David Stuart MacLean is an American writer. He is the author of '' The Answer to the Riddle Is Me'', a memoir of his

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-induced delirium and amnesia. MacLean has a Ph.D. in Literature/Creative Writing from The University of Houston, an M.F.A. from

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and he was a

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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 ''

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'', ''

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'',

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, Bennington Review,

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, and the radio program ''

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''. MacLean is a visiting faculty member of the creative writing program at the

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. He has been a guest on

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'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.

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