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David Foster Wallace
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American fiction writer and essayist (1962–2008)
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David Foster Wallace was an American writer, novelist, essayist, and university teacher. Born in Ithaca, New York, in 1962, he began his work period in 1987. He was associated with the Postmodernism movement and wrote in English. His notable works include *Infinite Jest*, *The Pale King*, and *The Broom of the System*. He also contributed to *The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2006* and *Both Flesh and Not*.
Wallace received the MacArthur Fellows Program award and the Whiting Awards. He was recognized in the Macarthur Fellows collection. He taught at Illinois State University, Emerson College, and Pomona College. His personal library and archives are held at the Harry Ransom Center. He died in Claremont in 2008 by hanging.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 21 Feb 1962
- Died
- 12 Sep 2008
- Works
- 141
Top works
- The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2006
- 24 contes al dia
- O rei pálido
- Both Flesh and Not
- Una cosa divertente che non farò mai più
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Ithaca, New York, USA
David Foster Wallace (February 21, 1962 – September 12, 2008) was an American writer and professor who published novels, short stories, and essays. He is best known for his 1996 novel Infinite Jest, which Time magazine named one of the 100 best English-language novels published from 1923 to 2005. In 2008, David Ulin wrote for the Los Angeles Times that Wallace was "one of the most influential and…
Known for
- The Unedited ZDF Interview — Himself
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Wallace
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Ithaca
- Place of death
- Claremont
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- Harvard University
- Employer
- Pomona College
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Movement
- Postmodernism
- Country for sport
- United States
- Official website
- www.davidfosterwallacebooks.com
- Image
- David Foster Wallace in 2006 (cropped).jpg
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- David Foster Wallace
- date of birth
- 1962-02-21
- date of death
- 2008-09-12
- manner of death
- Suicide
- cause of death
- hanging to death
- start of work period
- 1987-00-00
- archives at
- Harry Ransom Center
- personal library at
- Harry Ransom Center
- name in native language
- David Foster Wallace
- nominated for
- Pulitzer Prize
- has written for
- Los Angeles Times
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- medical condition
- depression
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Encyclopedic overview
David Foster Wallace (February 21, 1962 – September 12, 2008) was an American writer and professor who published novels, short stories, and essays. He is widely known for his 1996 novel Infinite Jest, which Time magazine named one of the 100 best English-language novels published from 1923 to 2005. In 2008, David Ulin wrote for the Los Angeles Times that Wallace was "one of the most influential and innovative writers of the last twenty years".
Wallace grew up in Illinois. He graduated from Amherst College and the University of Arizona. His honors thesis at Amherst was adapted into his debut novel The Broom of the System (1987). In his writing, Wallace intentionally avoided tropes of postmodern art such as irony or forms of metafiction, saying in 1990 that they were "agents of a great despair and stasis" in contemporary American culture. Infinite Jest, his second novel, is known for its unconventional narrative structure and extensive use of endnotes.
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