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, 18:29, September 15, 2008New page: '''David Foster Wallace''' (February 21, 1962 – September 12, 2008) was a professor at Pomona College in Claremont, California and novelist for fiction. He is perhaps best kn...
'''David Foster Wallace''' (February 21, 1962 – September 12, 2008) was a professor at [[Pomona College]] in Claremont, [[California]] and [[novelist]] for fiction. He is perhaps best known for his 1996 novel Infinite Jest, which was named on [[Time Magazine]] in its 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005.
Born in Ithaca, [[New York]], Wallace was a [[tennis]] player and majored in [[English]] and philosophy. Aside from writting novels, he wrote short storys in [[Magazine]]'s such as Playboy, The Paris Review, The New Yorker and others. Wallace has written some nonfiction. He covered [[Senator]] [[John McCain]]'s 2000 [[President]]ial [[campaign]] and the [[September 11, 2001 attacks]] for [[Rolling Stone]]. A [[liberal]], he has been a critic of the [[United States]] and [[War on Terrorism]]. In the November 2007 issue of The [[Atlantic]], he said "Have we become so selfish and scared that we don't even want to consider whether some things trump safety?"
Wallace committed [[suicide]] by hanging on Friday, September 12, 2008 at age 46 because of depression. <ref>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/15/books/15wallace.html?_r=1&em&oref=slogin</ref>
==Books==
*The Broom of the System (1987)
*Signifying Rappers: Rap and Race In the Urban Present (1990)
*Infinite Jest (1996)
*A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again (1997)
*Up, Simba! (2000)
*Everything and More (2003)
*Consider the Lobster (2005)
*McCain's Promise: Aboard the Straight Talk Express with John McCain and a Whole Bunch of Actual Reporters, Thinking About Hope (2008)
==References==
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[[Category:Liberals]]
Born in Ithaca, [[New York]], Wallace was a [[tennis]] player and majored in [[English]] and philosophy. Aside from writting novels, he wrote short storys in [[Magazine]]'s such as Playboy, The Paris Review, The New Yorker and others. Wallace has written some nonfiction. He covered [[Senator]] [[John McCain]]'s 2000 [[President]]ial [[campaign]] and the [[September 11, 2001 attacks]] for [[Rolling Stone]]. A [[liberal]], he has been a critic of the [[United States]] and [[War on Terrorism]]. In the November 2007 issue of The [[Atlantic]], he said "Have we become so selfish and scared that we don't even want to consider whether some things trump safety?"
Wallace committed [[suicide]] by hanging on Friday, September 12, 2008 at age 46 because of depression. <ref>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/15/books/15wallace.html?_r=1&em&oref=slogin</ref>
==Books==
*The Broom of the System (1987)
*Signifying Rappers: Rap and Race In the Urban Present (1990)
*Infinite Jest (1996)
*A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again (1997)
*Up, Simba! (2000)
*Everything and More (2003)
*Consider the Lobster (2005)
*McCain's Promise: Aboard the Straight Talk Express with John McCain and a Whole Bunch of Actual Reporters, Thinking About Hope (2008)
==References==
<references/>
[[Category:Liberals]]