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'''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.  

'''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|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 writing novels, he wrote short stories in [[magazine]]s such as ''Playboy'', ''The Paris Review'', ''The New Yorker'' and others. Wallace has also written nonfiction. He covered [[Senator]] [[John McCain]]'s 2000 [[President]]ial [[campaign]] and the [[September 11, 2001 attacks]] for ''[[Rolling Stone]]''. In the November 2007 issue of Atlantic Monthly, Wallace questioned whether terrorist attacks were unavoidable "without subverting the very principles that make [America] worth protecting?"<ref>http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200711/wallace-safety</ref>

Born in Ithaca, [[New York]], Wallace was a [[tennis]] player and majored in [[English]] and philosophy. Aside from writing novels, he wrote short stories in [[magazine]]s such as ''Playboy'', ''The Paris Review'', ''The New Yorker'' and others. Wallace has also written nonfiction. He covered [[Senator]] [[John McCain]]'s 2000 [[President]]ial [[campaign]] and the [[September 11, 2001 attacks]] for ''[[Rolling Stone]]''. In the November 2007 issue of ''Atlantic'' monthly, Wallace questioned whether terrorist attacks were unavoidable "without subverting the very principles that make [America] worth protecting?"<ref>http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200711/wallace-safety</ref>

Wallace committed [[suicide]] by hanging on Friday, September 12, 2008 at age 46. <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.<ref>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/15/books/15wallace.html?_r=1&em&oref=slogin</ref>

==Books==

==Books==

*''McCain's Promise: Aboard the Straight Talk Express with John McCain and a Whole Bunch of Actual Reporters, Thinking About Hope'' (2008)

*''McCain's Promise: Aboard the Straight Talk Express with John McCain and a Whole Bunch of Actual Reporters, Thinking About Hope'' (2008)

*''Fate, Time, and Language: An Essay on Free Will'' (2011)

*''Fate, Time, and Language: An Essay on Free Will'' (2011)

==References==

==References==

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