David Foster Wallace
Gender:
Male
Born:
February 21, 1962 - New York, America
Died:
September 12, 2008
About this author
David Foster Wallace was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and professor of English and creative writing. Wallace is widely known for his 1996 novel Infinite Jest, which was cited by Time magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005. Los Angeles Times book editor David Ulin called Wallace "one of the most influential and innovative writers of the last 20 years. In March 2010, it was announced that Wallace's personal papers and archives drafts of books, stories, essays, poems, letters, and research, including the handwritten notes for Infinite Jest had been purchased by the University of Texas at Austin.
Quotes by David Foster Wallace
Everything I've ever let go of has claw marks on it.