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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 ]
David Foster Wallace, author of the critically acclaimed 1996 novel Infinite Jest, was found dead in his Claremont, Calif., home on Friday. Wallace's wife told police that he'd hanged...
He was 46. A spokeswoman for the Claremont police said Mr. Wallace’s wife, Karen Green, returned home to find that her husband had hanged himself. Mr. Wallace’s father, James Donald Wallace ...
Infinite Jest author David Foster Wallace died by suicide in 2008. His tragic fate made him even more famous but arguably turned him from a countercultural figure into a cultural commodity.
The writer David Foster Wallace committed suicide on September 12th of last year. His wife, Karen Green, came home to find that he had hanged himself on the patio of their house, in...
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.
Any writer in America would have killed for his talent, but the man to whom it belonged killed himself. On Sept. 12, Wallace’s wife discovered his body at their home in Claremont, Calif. He had...
David Foster Wallace, whose darkly ironic novels, essays and short stories garnered him a large following and made him one of the most influential writers of his generation, was found dead in...
Infinite Jest author and Rolling Stone contributor David Foster Wallace was found dead in his Claremont, California home Friday night.
Those are the final words of David Foster Wallace’s kaleidoscopic, career-defining novel “Infinite Jest,” and they capture the low mood of this past Saturday night, when word of his suicide...