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'''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.  

'''David Foster Wallace''' (February 21, 1962 – September 12, 2008) was a professor at [[Pomona College]] in Claremont, [[California]], and a writer of both fiction and nonfiction. He is perhaps best known for his 1996 novel Infinite Jest, which was named by [[Time Magazine]] as one of the 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?"

Born in Ithaca, [[New York]], Wallace was a [[tennis]] player and majored in [[English]] and philosophy. Aside from writting novels, he wrote short stories 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>

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>