david foster wallace
David Foster Wallace at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, January 2006. [1]
David Foster Wallace, the novelist, essayist and humorist best known for his 1996 novel “Infinite Jest,” was found dead Friday night at his home in Claremont, according to the Claremont Police Department. [2]
When the news came that David Foster Wallace, only 46-years old, had hanged himself in his home in California, I opened his masterpiece, the 1996 novel “Infinite Jest,” at random and happened to land on a scene in which a recovering drug addict recalls a childhood moment of existential dread. [3]
David Foster Wallace, whose darkly ironic novels, essays and short stories garnered him a large following and made him one of the most influential writers of his generation, was found dead in his California home on Friday, after apparently committing suicide, the authorities said. [4]
Perhaps someday we’ll be offered an explanation for why David Foster Wallace took his life on Sept. 12, but any reader can see how his fiction had, in recent years, moved into greater darkness. [5]
Author David Foster Wallace died on Friday leaving the literary world in astonished disbelief. [6]
David Foster Wallace (February 21, 1962 ‘ September 12, 2008) was an American author of novels, essays and short-stories, and a professor at Pomona College in Claremont, California. [1]
A talented tennis player as a youngster, Wallace attended Amherst College and majored in philosophy before switching his focus to writing fiction. [2]
Mr. Wallace was a professor in the English department at Pomona College in Claremont. [...] Mr. Wallace, 46, best known for his sprawling 1,079-page novel “Infinite Jest,” was discovered by his wife, Karen Green, who returned home to find that he had hanged himself, a spokesman for the Claremont, Calif., police said Saturday evening. [4]
By getting it down on paper, he could further subdue that loneliness in other people, as other writers had subdued it in him. [5]
He was known for his 1996 novel Infinite Jest, which Time included in its All-Time 100 Greatest Novels list (covering the period 1923′2006). [1]
The novel was filled with references to high and low culture alike, and at the end had more than 100 pages of footnotes, which were trademarks of Mr. Wallace’s work. [4]
An author of infinite erudition who found artistic and moral value in simply registering his dread. [3]
“He was one of the most influential and innovative writers of the last 20 years,” Ulin said. [2]
Sources:
[1] David Foster Wallace - Wikipedia
[2] Writer David Foster Wallace found dead - Los Angeles Times
[3] David Foster Wallace: An Appreciation by David Gates | Newsweek Books …
[4] David Foster Wallace, Postmodern Writer, Is Found Dead - NYTimes.com
[5] Remembering David Foster Wallace | Salon Books
[6] David Foster Wallace on Bookworm - KCRW