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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › David_Foster_WallaceDavid Foster Wallace - Wikipedia

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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 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, whose prodigiously observant, exuberantly plotted, grammatically and etymologically challenging, philosophically probing and culturally hyper-contemporary novels, stories...

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   • 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 led to his suicide was published in the New Yorker in March of the following year.

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   • The International David Foster Wallace Society was founded to promote and sustain the long-term scholarly and independent study of David Foster Wallace’s writing. To these ends, the Society welcomes diverse, peer-reviewed scholarship and seeks to expand the critical boundaries of Wallace studies.

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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 · 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...

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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9. www.newyorker.com › 09 › 29David Foster Wallace | The New Yorker

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   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...

10. www.davidfosterwallacebooks.comDavid Foster Wallace Books

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    The official David Foster Wallace website featuring a listing of his books along audio clips and information about his newest title, THE PALE KING.