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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]
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.
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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,...
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...
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- September 12, 2008
- 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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Feb 1, 2016 · David Foster Wallace understood the paradox of attempting to write fiction that spoke to posterity and a contemporary audience simultaneously, with equal force.
Jul 27, 2022 · David Foster Wallace’s Final Attempt to Make Art Moral. In a late work, Wallace captured the appeal—and the impossibility—of the literature that he hoped to create. By Jon Baskin. July 27,...
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