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  1. On September 12, 2008, at age 46, Wallace wrote a private two-page suicide note to his wife, arranged part of the manuscript for The Pale King, and hanged himself on the back porch of his house in Claremont, California.

  2. Sep 20, 2019 · In the wake of his tragic suicide, his friends and family reveal the lifelong struggle of a beautiful mind. By David Lipsky. September 20, 2019. David Foster Wallace, an author, at The...

  3. The mother of John Kennedy Toole, author of A Confederacy of Dunces, destroyed his suicide note after reading it, providing conflicting reports as to its contents for the remainder of her life. The note David Foster Wallace left to his wife—a privacy I would never breach—nevertheless leaves me in an awe of pained curiosity.

  4. May 9, 2018 · In 2012, four years after the death of David Foster Wallace, Mary Karr wrote of him—and his loss—in her poem “Suicides Note: An Annual.” Wallace was not fully gone, the poet suggested...

  5. Oct 9, 2012 · At the New Yorker Festival on Saturday, the poet Mary Karr was one of several panelists who gathered for “ Rereading David Foster Wallace ,” moderated by Wallace biographer D.T. Max.

  6. Sep 4, 2012 · He had attempted suicide the year before, in his family home, and had also gone from being a marijuana addict to an alcoholic, mostly drinking alone and in front of the television. Most...

  7. Feb 1, 2016 · Author David Foster Wallace became one of the most admired writers alive, but the melancholy that ran through the novel never left him: He killed himself in 2008. Wallaces cult status...

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