page_title: David Foster Wallace
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caption_attribution_description: English: David Foster Wallace gave a reading for Booksmith at All Saints Church in 2006.&lt;www.thehowlingfantods.com/dfw.htm&gt; There is also a lot of discussion on the wallace-l email list &lt;www.waste.org/mail/?list=wallace-l&gt; Ed wrote about the reading. &lt;www.edrants.com/operation-dfw/ &gt;
context_page_description: David Foster Wallace was an American author of novels, short stories and essays, as well as a university professor of English and creative writing. Wallace is widely known for his 1996 novel Infinite Jest, which Time magazine cited as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005. His posthumous novel, The Pale King, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2012.
  The Los Angeles Times's David Ulin called Wallace "one of the most influential and innovative writers of the last twenty years". Among the writers who have cited Wallace as an influence are Dave Eggers, Zadie Smith, Jonathan Franzen, Elizabeth Wurtzel, George Saunders, Rivka Galchen, John Green, Matthew Gallaway, David Gordon, Darin Strauss, Charles Yu, Porochista Khakpour, and Deb Olin Unferth.
  Wallace grew up in Illinois and attended Amherst College. He taught English at Emerson College, Illinois State University, and Pomona College. In 2008, he died by suicide at age 46 after struggling with depression for many years.
context_section_description: David Foster Wallace (February 21, 1962 – September 12, 2008) was an American author of novels, short stories and essays, as well as a university professor of English and creative writing. Wallace is widely known for his 1996 novel Infinite Jest, which Time magazine cited as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005. His posthumous novel, The Pale King (2011), was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2012.
  The Los Angeles Times's David Ulin called Wallace "one of the most influential and innovative writers of the last twenty years". Among the writers who have cited Wallace as an influence are Dave Eggers, Zadie Smith, Jonathan Franzen, Elizabeth Wurtzel, George Saunders, Rivka Galchen, John Green, Matthew Gallaway, David Gordon, Darin Strauss, Charles Yu, Porochista Khakpour, and Deb Olin Unferth.
  Wallace grew up in Illinois and attended Amherst College. He taught English at Emerson College, Illinois State University, and Pomona College. In 2008, he died by suicide at age 46 after struggling with depression for many years.
caption: Wallace at a reading in 2006
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