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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]

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3. www.britannica.com › biography › David-Foster-WallaceDavid Foster Wallace | Postmodern Novelist, Essayist & Short ...

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   Apr 30, 2024 · 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. Wallace was the son of a philosophy professor and an English teacher.

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4. www.nytimes.com › 2008/09/15 › booksDavid Foster Wallace, Influential Writer, Dies at 46 - The ...

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   Sep 15, 2008 · David Foster Wallace at a Manhattan bookstore in 2006. Suzy Allman for The New York Times. “He was a huge talent, our strongest rhetorical writer,” Jonathan Franzen, a friend of Mr. Wallace ...

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6. www.npr.org › 2012/09/02 › 160248690The Writer Who Was The Voice Of A Generation : NPR

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   Sep 2, 2012 · A new biography of David Foster Wallace traces the author's anxieties to childhood. Biographer D.T. Max says the accidents of Foster's life gave him the key to his writing.

7. www.goodreads.com › author › showDavid Foster Wallace (Author of Infinite Jest) - Goodreads

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   • Death Date: September 12, 2008

   • Birth Date: February 21, 1962

   • Infinite Jest.
   • Consider the Lobster and Other Essays.
   • A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments.
   • This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life.

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   What did David Foster Wallace do before he died?

   • In a late work, Wallace captured the appeal—and the impossibility—of the literature that he hoped to create. Before David Foster Wallace died by suicide at his California home, in 2008, he left a pile of papers, spiral notebooks, three-ring binders, and floppy disks on a table in his garage.

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   What can David Foster Wallace do?

   • “David Foster Wallace can do practically anything if he puts his mind to it,” Michiko Kakutani, chief book critic of The New York Times, who was not a consistent praiser of Mr. Wallace’s work, wrote in 2006. “He can do sad, funny, silly, heartbreaking and absurd with equal ease; he can even do them all at once.”

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   Who is David Foster Wallace in 'the end of the tour'?

   • GROSS: David Foster Wallace, thank you very much for talking with. WALLACE: Thank you, back. GROSS: My interview with the late David Foster Wallace was recorded in 1997, one year after the new film about him is set. In the film, "The End Of The Tour," he's portrayed by Jason Segel.

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   Does David Foster Wallace define Roger Federer?

   • "David Foster Wallace's 'String Theory' defines Roger Federer, but that's only the beginning". oregonlive. Retrieved March 4, 2024. ^ Dean, Michelle. "A Supposedly True Thing Jonathan Franzen Said About David Foster Wallace". The Awl. Archived from the original on May 17, 2017. Retrieved December 25, 2016. ^ Cook, John (March 21, 2012).

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9. www.npr.org › 2015/08/14 › 432161732David Foster Wallace: The 'Fresh Air' Interview : NPR

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   Aug 14, 2015 · David Foster Wallace: The 'Fresh Air' Interview In 1996, Wallace's novel Infinite Jest was a critical and popular success. The new movie The End of The Tour recreates the author's tour for that book.

10. www.newyorker.com › books › under-reviewDavid Foster Wallace’s Final Attempt to Make Art Moral

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    Jul 27, 2022 · Before David Foster Wallace died by suicide at his California home, in 2008, he left a pile of papers, spiral notebooks, three-ring binders, and floppy disks on a table in his garage. The ...