David Foster Wallace

David Foster Wallace (February 21, 1962 – September 12, 2008) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and professor of English and creative writing. Wallace is widely known for his 1996 novel Infinite Jest. It was called by Time magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005.

Wallace committed suicide (by hanging) on September 12, 2008, at age 46.

References

Other websites

 David Foster Wallace Archive, The University of Texas at Austin
 "An Appraisal: Writer Mapped the Mythic and the Mundane", by Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times, September 14, 2008.
 "David Foster Wallace, 1962–2008", by David Gates, Newsweek, September 14, 2008.
 "The Unfinished" by D. T. Max, The New Yorker, March 9, 2009.
 "Everything & More: The Work of David Foster Wallace" by Malcolm Knox, The Monthly, November, 2008.
 "David Foster Wallace and the Velveteen Rabbit", Identity Theory, August 2011.
 "King of the Ghosts", n+1, October, 2011.

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