David Foster Wallace
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David Foster Wallace was an acclaimed American fiction writer and essayist known for his innovative and ambitious literary works from the 1980s until his death in 2008. His writing is widely studied and admired for its exploration of contemporary American life, popular culture, and the human condition, making him an important figure in late 20th-century literature.
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- Born
- 21 Feb 1962
- Died
- 12 Sep 2008
- Works
- 141
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- 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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Writing · 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…
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- The Unedited ZDF Interview — Himself
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- 1962-02-21
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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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