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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 ]
Oct 30, 2024 · David Foster Wallace (born February 21, 1962, Ithaca, New York, U.S.—died September 12, 2008, Claremont, California) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and essayist whose dense works provide a dark, often satirical analysis of American culture. Wallace was the son of a philosophy professor and an English teacher.
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Sep 2, 2012 · When writer David Foster Wallace committed suicide in 2008 at the age of 46, U.S. literature lost one of its most influential living writers. The definitive account of Wallace's life and what led ...
Infinite Jest is a 1996 novel by American writer David Foster Wallace.Categorized as an encyclopedic novel, [1] Infinite Jest is featured in Time magazine's list of the 100 best English-language novels published between 1923 and 2005.
- David Foster Wallace
- 1996
David Foster Wallace, who died on September 12th, at the age of forty-six, was in many ways a writer of his time. “Infinite Jest,” a 1,079-page literary manifesto that was also a piercingly ...
Sep 10, 2018 · Too Much and Too Little: A History of David Foster Wallace’s “The Pale King” David Hering offers an excerpt from his new book "David Foster Wallace: Fiction and Form." David Hering Sep 14 ...
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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 ...
