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David Foster Wallace

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Born: February 20 1962

Died: 1111 09 20082008

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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 bits of information today," he once said, "of which maybe 25 are important. My job is to make some sense of it." He wanted to write "stuff about what it feels like to live. Instead of being a relief from what it feels like to live." Readers curled up in the nooks and clearings of his style: his comedy, his brilliance, his humaneness.

His life was a map that ends at the wrong destination. 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 writing school, published the novel, made a city of squalling, bruising, kneecapping editors and writers fall moony-eyed in love with him. He published a thousand-page novel, received the only award you get in the nation for being a genius, wrote essays providing the best feel anywhere of what it means to be alive in the contemporary world, accepted a special chair at California's Pomona College to teach writing, married, published another book and, last month [Sept. 2008], hanged himself at age 46.

-excerpt from The Lost Years & Last Days of David Foster Wallace by David Lipsky in Rolling Stone Magazine October 30, 2008.

Among Wallace's honors were a Whiting Writers Award , a Lannan Literary Award , a Paris Review Aga Khan Prize for Fiction , a National Magazine Award , three O. Henry Awards , and a MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Grant.

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David Foster Wallace

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Books from David Foster Wallace

Infinite Jest

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life

The Broom of the System

The Pale King

Oblivion: Stories

Girl with Curious Hair

Una cosa divertente che non farò mai più

Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

Consider the Lobster and Other Essays

The Best American Essays 2007

David Foster Wallace: The Last Interview and Other Conversations

Conversations with David Foster Wallace

The Depressed Person

Signifying Rappers: Rap and Race in the Urban Present

Do I Make Myself Clear? Why Writing Well Matters

Fate, Time, and Language: An Essay on Free Will

Birthday Stories: Selected and Introduced by Haruki Murakami

Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity

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