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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.
-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>
-==Books==
-*''The Broom of the System'' (1987)
-*''The Girl With Curious Ha''ir (1989)
-*''Signifying Rappers: Rap and Race In the Urban Present'' (1990)
-*''Infinite Jest'' (1996)
-*''A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again'' (1997)
-*''Brief Interviews With Hideous Men'' (1999)
-*''Up, Simba!'' (2000)
-*''Everything and More'' (2003)
-*''Oblivion: Stories'' (2004)
-*''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)
-*''Fate, Time, and Language: An Essay on Free Will'' (2011)
-==References==
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-[[category:authors]]

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