# David Stuart MacLean

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**David Stuart MacLean** is an American writer. He is the author of *[The Answer to the Riddle Is Me](/source/The_Answer_to_the_Riddle_Is_Me)*, a memoir of his [mefloquine](/source/Mefloquine)-induced delirium and amnesia.[1][2][3][4]

MacLean has a Ph.D. in Literature/Creative Writing from [The University of Houston](/source/University_of_Houston), an M.F.A. from [New Mexico State University](/source/New_Mexico_State_University) and he was a [Fulbright](/source/Fulbright_Program) scholar in India. He won a [PEN/America Center](/source/PEN_American_Center) award in 2011 as the Best Emerging Writer in Non-Fiction.[5] His essays and stories have appeared in *[The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times)*,[6] *[The Guardian](/source/The_Guardian)*,[7] [Ploughshares](/source/Ploughshares),[8] [Bennington Review](/source/Bennington_Review),[9] [Guernica](/source/Guernica_(magazine)),[10] and the radio program *[This American Life](/source/This_American_Life)*.[11] MacLean is a visiting faculty member of the creative writing program at the [University of Chicago](/source/University_of_Chicago).[12] He has been a guest on [Duncan Trussell](/source/Duncan_Trussell)'s podcast, *[The Duncan Trussell Family Hour](/source/The_Duncan_Trussell_Family_Hour)*.[13] In 2021, he published the novel *How I Learned to Hate in Ohio* with The Overlook Press.

He lives in Chicago.

## References

1. ["Amnesia makes David Stuart MacLean a 'Riddle' he must solve"](http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-ca-jc-david-stuart-maclean-20140126,0,7452791.story#ixzz2tbkrOXCX). *[Los Angeles Times](/source/Los_Angeles_Times)*. January 24, 2014. Retrieved 2014-02-17.

1. ["'The Answer to the Riddle Is Me' by David Stuart MacLean"](https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/book-review-the-answer-to-the-riddle-is-me-by-david-stuart-maclean/2014/01/23/4ed7f406-7df4-11e3-9556-4a4bf7bcbd84_story.html). *[The Washington Post](/source/The_Washington_Post)*. January 23, 2014. Retrieved 2014-12-30.

1. ["The Answer To The Riddle Is Me"](http://www.thisamericanlife.org/contributors/david-maclean). *[This American Life](/source/This_American_Life)*. January 22, 2010. Retrieved 2014-12-30.

1. David Takami (February 21, 2014). ["David Stuart MacLean's terrifying memoir of amnesia"](http://seattletimes.com/html/books/2022953242_answerriddlemacleanxml.html). *[Seattle Times](/source/Seattle_Times)*. Retrieved 2014-12-30.

1. ["PEN Emerging Writers Award for Non-fiction | PEN America"](https://pen.org/literature/pen-emerging-writers-award-non-fiction). *pen.org*. 16 November 2012. Retrieved 2016-05-20.

1. Maclean, David Stuart (2013-08-07). ["Crazy Pills"](https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/08/opinion/crazy-pills.html). *The New York Times*. [ISSN 0362-4331](https://www.worldcat.org/issn/0362-4331). Retrieved 2016-05-20.

1. MacLean, David Stuart (2014-07-12). ["Pregnant with anxiety"](https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/jul/12/pregnant-with-anxiety-family-history-mental-illness). *the Guardian*. Retrieved 2016-05-20.

1. ["David Stuart MacLean | Ploughshares"](https://www.pshares.org/authors/david-stuart-maclean). *www.pshares.org*. Retrieved 2016-05-20.

1. ["MacLean"](http://www.benningtonreview.org/maclean). *Bennington Review*. Retrieved 2016-05-20.

1. Magazine, Guernica (2007-09-14). ["How to Rent a Hotel Room"](https://www.guernicamag.com/fiction/how_to_rent_a_hotel_room/). *Guernica / A Magazine of Art & Politics*. Retrieved 2016-05-20.

1. ["Contents Unknown | This American Life"](http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/399/contents-unknown?act=3#play). *This American Life*. 22 January 2010. Retrieved 2016-05-20.

1. ["Visiting Faculty | Creative Writing"](https://creativewriting.uchicago.edu/faculty/visiting). *creativewriting.uchicago.edu*. Retrieved 2016-05-20.[dead link]

1. ["The Duncan Trussell Family Hour: Episode 102, David MacLean"](https://web.archive.org/web/20160610144038/http://duncantrussell.com/david-maclean-2/#/vanilla/discussion/embed/?vanilla_discussion_id=0). *duncantrussell.com*. Archived from [the original](http://duncantrussell.com/david-maclean-2/#/vanilla/discussion/embed/?vanilla_discussion_id=0) on 2016-06-10. Retrieved 2016-05-20.

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