num_pages: 356
description: The first biography of the most influential writer of his generation David Foster WallaceDavid Foster Wallace was the leading literary light of his era a man who not only captivated readers with his prose but also mesmerized them with his brilliant mind. In this the first biography of the writer D. T. Max sets out to chart Wallaces tormented anguished and often triumphant battle to succeed as a novelist as he fights off depression and addiction to emerge with his masterpiece Infinite Jest.Since his untimely death by suicide at the age of forty-six in 2008 Wallace has become more than the quintessential writer for his timehe has become a symbol of sincerity and honesty in an inauthentic age. In the end as Max shows us what is most interesting about Wallace is not just what he wrote but how he taught us all to live. Written with the cooperation of Wallaces family and friends and with access to hundreds of his unpublished letters manuscripts and audio tapes this portrait of an extraordinarily gifted writer is as fresh as news as intimate as a love note as painful as a goodbye.
language: English
title: Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
publisher: Viking