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  1. 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]

  2. 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.

  3. Sep 15, 2008 · David Foster Wallace, whose prodigiously observant, exuberantly plotted, grammatically and etymologically challenging, philosophically probing and culturally hyper-contemporary novels, stories...

  4. Ideas Education. 5 Takeaways From the Greatest Commencement Speech of All Time. David Foster Wallace. May 22, 2015. SHARE. Gary Hannabarger—CorbisPhotographed in his hometown of...

  5. Sep 2, 2012 · When writer David Foster Wallace committed suicide in 2008 at the age of 46, U.S. literature lost one of its most influential living writers. The definitive account of Wallace's life and what...

  6. Sep 17, 2008 · September 17, 2008. David Foster Wallace, who died on September 12th, at the age of forty-six, was in many ways a writer of his time. “Infinite Jest,” a 1,079-page literary manifesto that was ...

  7. Sep 12, 2008 · David Foster Wallace. Born. in Ithaca, New York, The United States. February 21, 1962. Died. September 12, 2008. Website. http://www.davidfosterwallacebooks.com/ Genre. Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction, Short Stories. Influences. Thomas Pynchon, William Gaddis, Don Delillo, John Barth, Fyodor Dostoy. ...more. edit data.

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