David Foster Wallace

Quick Facts

Full Name	David Foster Wallace
Occupation	Novelist
Date Of Birth	Feb 21, 1962(1962-02-21)
Age	62
Date Of Death	2008-09-12
Birthplace	Ithaca
Country	United States
Birth City	New York
Horoscope	Aquarius

David Foster Wallace Biography

David Foster Wallace is one of the most popular and richest Novelist who was born on February 21, 1962 in Ithaca, New York, United States. An incredibly talented but troubled writer who is most well-known as the author of Infinite Jest (1996) and other novels that are philosophically complex. He took his own life at the age forty-six.

A man with a variety of hobbies, he composed pieces on tennis superstar A man of many interests, he wrote pieces about tennis star Roger Federer, as well as about politician John McCain., as well as on the politician John McCain.

The song “Surrounded by Heads and Bodies”, from the album A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships by The 1975, borrows its title from the opening line of Infinite Jest. Matty Healy, The 1975’s lead singer, said in an interview with Pitchfork that he was inspired by the novel after reading it during a stint in rehab:

Wallace attended Amherst College, his father’s alma mater, where he majored in English and philosophy and graduated summa cum laude in 1985. Among other extracurricular activities, he participated in glee club; his sister recalls that he “had a lovely singing voice”. In studying philosophy, Wallace pursued modal logic and mathematics, and presented a senior thesis in philosophy and modal logic that was awarded the Gail Kennedy Memorial Prize and posthumously published as Fate, Time, and Language: An Essay on Free Will (2011).

His father was on the faculty at the University of Illinois and his mother taught English at an Illinois community college.

David Foster Wallace Net Worth

David Foster Wallace is one of the richest Novelist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, David Foster Wallace 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

The novel he wrote his debut, The Broom of the System that was a comparison of his home country of the U.S. to Disneyland, was published at only twenty-four.

His works are famous for their lengthy sentences, that are punctuated with elaborate phrasing and for their examination of the entirety of the human experience.

David Foster Wallace (February 21, 1962 – September 12, 2008) was an American author of novels, short stories and essays, as well as a university professor of English and creative writing. Wallace is widely known for his 1996 novel Infinite Jest, which Time magazine cited as one of the 100 best English- language novels from 1923 to 2005. His posthumous novel, The Pale King (2011), was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2012.

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In 1991, Wallace began teaching literature as an adjunct professor at Emerson College in Boston. The next year, at the suggestion of colleague and supporter Steven Moore, Wallace obtained a position in the English department at Illinois State University. He had begun work on his second novel, Infinite Jest, in 1991, and submitted a draft to his editor in December 1993. After the publication of excerpts throughout 1995, the book was published in 1996.

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David Ranked on the list of most popular Novelist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. David Foster Wallace celebrates birthday on February 21 of every year.

Wallace’s fiction combines narrative modes and authorial voices that incorporate jargon and invented vocabulary, such as self-generated abbreviations and acronyms, long, multi-clause sentences, and an extensive use of explanatory endnotes and footnotes, as in Infinite Jest and the story “Octet” (collected in Brief Interviews with Hideous Men) and most of his non- fiction after 1996. In a 1997 interview on Charlie Rose, Wallace said that the notes were to disrupt the linear narrative, to reflect his perception of reality without jumbling the narrative structure, and that he could have jumbled the sentences “but then no one would read it”.

Top Facts about David Foster Wallace

1. David Foster Wallace was an American writer born in 1962.
2. He is best known for his novel “Infinite Jest.”
3. Wallace suffered from depression and committed suicide in 2008.
4. He taught creative writing at Pomona College and Illinois State University.
5. Wallace’s writing style was characterized by footnotes and non-linear narratives.
6. His work often explored themes of addiction, mental illness, and the human condition.
7. Wallace won numerous awards for his writing, including a MacArthur Fellowship.
8. He wrote essays on topics ranging from tennis to politics to television.
9. Wallace’s unfinished novel “The Pale King” was published posthumously in 2011.
10. His work continues to influence contemporary literature and culture today.

Why did David Wallace take his life?

Wallace grew up in Illinois and attended Amherst College. He taught English at Emerson College, Illinois State University, and Pomona College. In 2008, he died by suicide at age 46 after struggling with depression for many years.

Which David Foster Wallace book should I read first?

I recommend one starts with the essay “ Consider the Lobster ,” published in Gourmet Magazine in 2004. If you don’t like this essay, then you won’t like David Foster Wallace. But chances are that you will like it. It’s fun, informative, intelligent and bizarre.

Why is David Foster Wallace important?

David Foster Wallace, (born February 21, 1962, Ithaca, New York, U.S.—died September 12, 2008, Claremont, California), American novelist, short-story writer, and essayist whose dense works provide a dark, often satirical analysis of American culture. Wallace was the son of a philosophy professor and an English teacher.

What was David Foster Wallace philosophy?

Wallace would later identify his attraction to technical philosophy in aesthetic terms: It was, he suggested, a craving for a certain kind of beauty, for the variety of imaginative experience characteristic of formal systems like mathematics and chess.

Is the end of the tour a true story?

The End of the Tour, out now, is the true story of two thirtysomething writers named David : one, played by a bespectacled and bandana-ed Jason Segel, is the novelist David Foster Wallace, who’s deeply ambivalent about the fame that his new novel Infinite Jest has brought crashing down on his head.