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David Foster Wallace (February 21, 1962 – September 12, 2008) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and university professor of English and creative writing. Wallace's 1996 novel Infinite Jest was cited by Time magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005. [1] His posthumous novel, The Pale King ...
Sep 12, 2018 · Wallace’s suicide at the age of 46, after reaching literary immortality and finding a cult-like following most writers only dream of, is most commonly explained by friends, family, colleagues, even the literary community, as “mental illness.”. The treatment of this “mental illness,” as well as what’s going on behind the “symptoms ...
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Sep 15, 2008 · David Foster Wallace at a Manhattan bookstore in 2006. Suzy Allman for The New York Times. “He was a huge talent, our strongest rhetorical writer,” Jonathan Franzen, a friend of Mr. Wallace ...
Feb 28, 2009 · Illustration by Philip Burke. The writer David Foster Wallace committed suicide on September 12th of last year. His wife, Karen Green, came home to find that he had hanged himself on the patio of ...
Sep 14, 2008 · Transcript. David Foster Wallace, author of the critically acclaimed 1996 novel Infinite Jest, was found dead in his Claremont, Calif., home on Friday. Wallace's wife told police that he'd hanged ...
Sep 14, 2008 · David Foster Wallace, whose darkly ironic novels, essays and short stories garnered him a large following and made him one of the most influential writers of his generation, was found dead in his ...
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Sep 18, 2008 · On Sept. 12, Wallace’s wife discovered his body at their home in Claremont, Calif. He had hanged himself. He was 46. He was David Foster Wallace only on the page. His first agent suggested that ...
