[1] Wallace knew by the eighth grade that he wanted to be a writer and majored in English with a minor in philosophy at Georgetown University.
[5] Earlier in his career, after briefly teaching and writing in the Czech Republic and Hungary, he moved to New York and spent two years working for a financial newsletter.
[12] Wallace said, "I have never felt that Mr. Broadbent acted in bad faith, and contrary to his claims, I maintain that The Billionaire's Vinegar does not suggest that he did.
"[12] Todd Black, James Lassiter, Jason Blumenthal, Steve Tisch and Will Smith bought the rights to Wallace's book before it was published in 2008.
[15] On April 26, 2008, he married Jessica Pressler, an editor at New York magazine at the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America.