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September 12, 2008 (46 years old)
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Pisces
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David Foster Wallace is an American author of novels, short stories and essays, and a university professor of English and creative writing. Wallace is widely known for his 1996 novel Infinite Jest, voted one of the 100 best English novels from 1923 to 2005 by Time magazine. King, winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. David Ulin of the Los Angeles Times called Wallace "one of the most influential and creative writers of the past two decades." Among the writers who cited influential Wallace were Dave Eggers, Zadie Smith, Jonathan Franzen, Elizabeth Wurtzel, George Saunders, Rivka Galchen, John Green, Matthew Gallaway, David Gordon, Darin Strauss, Charles Yu, Porochista Khakpour, and Deb. Olin Unferth. Wallace grew up in Illinois and attended Amherst College. He taught English at Emerson College, Illinois State University and Pomona College.
BornFebruary 21, 1962, Ithaca, New York, U.S.
DiedSeptember 12, 2008, Claremont, California, U.S.
OccupationWriter, university professor
Alma materAmherst College (BA), University of Arizona (MFA)
Period1987–2008
GenreLiterary fiction, non-fiction
Literary movementPostmodern literature, post-postmodernism, Metamodernism, hysterical realism, New Sincerity
Notable worksInfinite Jest (1996)

About David Foster Wallace

Novelist David Foster Wallace was born in Ithaca, New York, United States on February 21, 1962. He dies at the age of 46, on September 12, 2008.

Brilliant but troubled author who is best known for Infinite Jest (1996) and other philosophically complex novels. At the age of 46, he committed suicide.

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David Foster Wallace before becoming famous

David Foster Wallace was born in the Zodiac sign Pisces (The Fish), and 1962 is also the year of Tiger (兎) in the Chinese Zodiac.

When he was only twenty-four years old, he published The Broom of the System, a novel that compared the United States to Disneyland.

Achievement of David Foster Wallace

His writings are notable for their complicated punctuation and long phrases, as well as his investigation of the entirety of human existence.

David Foster Wallace's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

His father was a professor at the University of Illinois, while his mother taught English at a community college in Illinois.

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He wrote about tennis star Tennis Player Roger Federer as well as politician John McCain, a man with many interests.

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David Foster Wallace Income & Net worth

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