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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 ]
Jul 25, 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.
Sep 15, 2008 · David Foster Wallace, whose prodigiously observant, exuberantly plotted, grammatically and etymologically challenging, philosophically probing and culturally hyper-contemporary novels, stories...
Sep 20, 2019 · David Foster Wallace worked surprising turns on nearly everything: novels, journalism, vacation. His life was an information hunt, collecting hows and whys. “I received 500,000 discrete...
May 22, 2015 · David Foster Wallace was an author. David Foster Wallace gave the commencement speech at Kenyon College in 2005. There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older...
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...
David Foster Wallace's remarkable 2005 commencement speech, This is Water, is a timeless trove of wisdom for living a meaningful life. Here is a full transcript along with audio.
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