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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]

   • Notable works: Infinite Jest (1996)

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

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   2 days ago · 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.theguardian.com › books › 2016Infinite Jest at 20: 20 things you need to know | David ...

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   Feb 26, 2016 · There is an enormous searchable Wiki, and on his website Infinite Jest by the Numbers, Ryan Compton has calculated that Wallace used a vocabulary of 20,584 words in the 577,608-word text. The ...

7. 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 life and what led ...

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   • They write new content and verify and edit content received from contributors. David Foster Wallace (born February 21, 1962, Ithaca, New York, U.S.—died September 12, 2008, Claremont, California) American novelist, short-story writer, and essayist whose dense works provide a dark, often satirical analysis of American culture.

   David Foster Wallace | Postmodern Novelist, Essayist & Short Story

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   Did you know David Foster Wallace based his book on a 'Sierpinski gasket'?

   • Photograph: Steve Liss/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images The beloved 1,100-page novel is David Foster Wallace’s magnum opus and one of the most influential books of its time, but did you know he based its structure on a mathematical object called a Sierpinski Gasket and proofread it while watching a film about a St Bernard dog, on a loop?

   Infinite Jest at 20: 20 things you need to know - The Guardian

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   What happened to David Foster Wallace?

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

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   Sep 12, 2008 · Wallace was an A student through high school, he played football, he played tennis, he wrote a philosophy thesis and a novel before he graduated from Amherst, he went to writ. David Foster Wallace worked surprising turns on nearly everything: novels, journalism, vacation. His life was an information hunt, collecting hows and whys.

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 ...