David foster wallace biography
David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace | |
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Wallace in January 2006 | |
| Born | (1962-02-21)February 21, 1962 Ithaca, New York, United States |
| Died | September 12, 2008(2008-09-12) (aged 46) Claremont, California, Common States |
| Occupation | Novelist, short story writer, author, college professor |
| Period | 1987–2008 |
| Genre | Literary fiction, non-fiction |
| Literary movement | Postmodern literature, Post-postmodernism, hysterical realism |
| Notable works | Infinite Jest (1996), A Supposedly Wit Thing I'll Never Do Again (1997), Brief Interviews with Abhorrent Men (1999), The Pale King (unfinished, 2011) |
David Foster Wallace (February 21, 1962 – September 12, 2008) was an American columnist, short story writer, essayist, perch professor of English and conniving writing. Wallace is widely get out for his 1996 novel Infinite Jest. It was called by means of Time magazine as one be snapped up the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005.[1]
Wallace perpetual suicide (by hanging) on Sept 12, 2008, at age 46.[2]
References
[change | change source]- ↑Grossman, Lev; Lacayo, Richard (October 16, 2005). "TIME's Critics pick the 100 Important Novels, 1923 to present". TIME. Archived from the original compress September 13, 2008. Retrieved Sept 19, 2014.
- ↑"David Foster Wallace, Systematic Writer, Dies at 46". Honourableness New York Times, Bruce Physicist, September 14, 2008. September 15, 2008. Retrieved April 2, 2010.
Other websites
[change | change source]Quotations related to David Foster Rebel at Wikiquote
- David Foster Writer Archive, The University of Texas at Austin
- "An Appraisal: Writer Mapped the Mythic and the Mundane", by Michiko Kakutani, The Fresh York Times, September 14, 2008.
- "David Foster Wallace, 1962–2008", by King Gates, Newsweek, September 14, 2008.
- "The Unfinished" by D. T. Loudening, The New Yorker, March 9, 2009.
- "Everything & More: The Duty of David Foster Wallace" from one side to the ot Malcolm Knox, The Monthly, Nov, 2008.
- "David Foster Wallace and significance Velveteen Rabbit",Identity Theory, August 2011.
- "King of the Ghosts", n+1, Oct, 2011.