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Aug 22, 2012 · On Sept, 12, 2008, Mr. Max reports, Wallace climbed onto a chair and hanged himself, while his wife was out of the house. He had left behind a pile of manuscript pages including drafts, character ...
Sep 19, 2008 · David Foster Wallace, who died last week, was the most brilliant American writer of his generation. In a speech, published here for the first time, he reflects on the difficulties of daily life ...
David Foster Wallace was born in Ithaca, New York, in 1962 and raised in Illinois, where he was a regionally ranked junior tennis player. He received bachelor of arts degrees in philosophy and English from Amherst College and wrote what would become his first novel, The Broom of the System, as his senior English thesis.
Dec 13, 2012 · In the extraordinary life of David Foster Wallace, his time at Harvard was, fittingly, a footnote. Wallace — the author, most famously, of “Infinite Jest,” a novel so full-to-overflowing with ideas it required almost 100 pages of endnotes — came to Harvard in 1989, at the age of 27, intending to earn a Ph.D. in philosophy.
Nov 29, 2021 · November 29, 2021. Feature photo by Steve Rhodes. David Foster Wallace’s work has long been celebrated for audaciously reorienting fiction toward empathy, sincerity, and human connection after decades of (supposedly) bleak postmodern assertions that all had become nearly impossible. Linguistically rich and structurally innovative, his work is ...
Sep 15, 2008 · David Foster Wallace, the author of Infinite Jest, committed suicide on Friday, Sept. 12 at the age of 46. Foster Wallace was known as an explosive writer who cast his work with dark irony in ...
