Read the bio below and try to give details on david foster wallace 's: - death place - period - caption - notableworks - death date - genre - birth date - name - movement - image - birth place - occupation Bio: david foster wallace -lrb- february 21 , 1962 -- september 12 , 2008 -rrb- was an american author of novels , short stories and essays , as well as a professor of english and creative writing . wallace is widely known for his 1996 novel '' infinite jest '' , which was cited by '' time '' magazine as one of the 100 best english-language novels from 1923 to 2005 . wallace 's last , unfinished novel , '' the pale king '' , was published in 2011 and was a finalist for the 2012 pulitzer prize for fiction . a biography of wallace was published in september 2012 , and an extensive critical literature on his work has developed in the past decade . '' los angeles times '' book editor david ulin called wallace '' one of the most influential and innovative writers of the last 20 years . ''
- death place is claremont , california , united states- period is 1987 -- 2008- caption is wallace in january 2006- notableworks is '' supposedly fun thing i 'll never do again '' -lrb- infinite 1997 -rrb- '' brief interviews with hideous men '' -lrb- jest 1999 -rrb- '' the pale king '' -lrb- unfinished , '' 2011 -rrb- -lrb- 1996 -rrb- '' a- death date is 12 september 2008- genre is literary fiction , non-fiction- birth date is 21 february 1962- name is david foster wallace- movement is postmodern literature , post-postmodernism , hysterical realism- image is david foster wallace headshot 2006.jpg- birth place is ithaca , new york , united states- occupation is novelist professor , short story writer , essayist , college