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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]] 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==

*The Broom of the System (1987)

*''The Broom of the System'' (1987)

*The Girl With Curious Hair (1989)

*''The Girl With Curious Ha''ir (1989)

*Signifying Rappers: Rap and Race In the Urban Present (1990)

*''Signifying Rappers: Rap and Race In the Urban Present'' (1990)

*Infinite Jest (1996)

*''Infinite Jest'' (1996)

*A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again (1997)

*''A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again'' (1997)

*Brief Interviews With Hideous Men (1999)

*''Brief Interviews With Hideous Men'' (1999)

*Up, Simba! (2000)

*''Up, Simba!'' (2000)

*Everything and More (2003)

*''Everything and More'' (2003)

*Oblivion: Stories (2004)

*''Oblivion: Stories'' (2004)

*Consider the Lobster (2005)

*''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)

*''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==