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David Stuart MacLean

Biography

David Stuart MacLean

David Stuart Maclean is a Pen/American award-winning writer. His work has appeared in Ploughshares, The New York Times, and on the radio program "This American Life." He has a PhD from the University of Houston and is a co-founder of the Poison Pen Reading Series. He lives in Chicago with his wife.

David Stuart MacLean

Books by David Stuart MacLean

The Answer to the Riddle Is Me: A Memoir of Amnesia
by David Stuart MacLean - Memoir, Nonfiction

On October 17, 2002, David MacLean “woke up” on a train platform in India with no idea who he was or why he was there. Soon he could remember song lyrics, but not his family, his friends, or the woman he was told he loved. All of these symptoms were the result of the commonly prescribed malarial medication he had been taking. Upon his return to the States, he struggled to piece together the fragments of his former life.