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David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace was an American writer and professor who published novels, short stories, and essays. He is most widely known for his 1996 novel Infinite Jest. In 2008, David Ulin wrote for the Los Angeles Times that Wallace was "one of the most influential and innovative writers of the last twenty years".
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culture · American writer (1962–2008) · writer · novelist · essayist · university teacher · also David Foster Wallace, David Wallace, Wallace
Born 21 February 1962 · Died 12 September 2008 · Q313246
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2026· 7 entries
“Routine, repetition, tedium, monotony, ephemeracy, inconsequence, abstraction, disorder, boredom, angst, ennui—these are the true hero’s enemies, and make no mistake, they are fearsome indeed. For they are real.”
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“How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.”
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The Bulwark: David Wallace-Wells: The Politics of AI Are Shifting in Real Time
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Legacy obituary: Susan S. Wallace Obituary (2026) - Jasper, GA - Roper Funeral Home and Crematory - Jasper
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KCBD: Levelland’s Wallace Theater announces second season lineup themed “Stories by Starlight”
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The Guardian: A Close Shave/A Matter of Loaf and Death review – Wallace and Gromit knit together a cracking double bill
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2019· 1 entry
The Guardian: Fatima Bhutto: ‘David Foster Wallace on David Lynch is pretty funny’
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2018· 3 entries
The Guardian: David Foster Wallace was right – even in paradise we will need the internet | Brigid Delaney
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The Guardian: You know who knew the real John McCain? David Foster Wallace | Jill Abramson
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Karr said that the account of Wallace's alleged abuse in D
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2017· 2 entries
The Guardian: Enough David Foster Wallace, already! We need to read beyond our bubbles
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The Guardian: Focus Group review – David Foster Wallace's sinister Mr Squishy is staged
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2015· 1 entry
Karr said that Wallace was violent toward other women he dated, and in 2018, she said that several women, including former students of Wallace, contacted her to share their alleged physical and emotional abuse by Wallace
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2012· 3 entries
Karr described his earlier behavior toward her as obsessive and volatile, alleging that he once threw a coffee table at her and once physically forced her out of a car, leaving her to walk home
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It was adapted as a play by artist Andy Holden for a two-night run at the ICA in London
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“A Totally Fun Thing Bart Will Never Do Again”
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2011· 1 entry
And was a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
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2009· 1 entry
And premiered at the Sundance Film Festival
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2008· 6 entries
At age 46, Wallace wrote a suicide note to his wife, arranged part of the manuscript for The Pale King, and hanged himself on the back porch of his house
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Died 2008-09-12.
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After struggling with depression for many years, Wallace died by suicide at age 46
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David Ulin wrote for the Los Angeles Times that Wallace was "one of the most influential and innovative writers of the last twenty years"
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His father said that Wallace had suffered from major depressive disorder for more than 20 years, and that antidepressant medication had allowed him to be productive
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In 2008, his father said that Wallace had suffered from major depressive disorder for more than 20 years, and that antidepressant medication had allowed him to be productive.
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2002· 2 entries
Wallace met painter Karen L
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Wallace moved to Claremont, California, to become the first Roy E
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1997· 1 entry
Wallace received a MacArthur Fellowship
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1996· 1 entry
Awarded Lannan Literary Awards (1996).
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1991· 2 entries
And submitted a draft to his editor in December 1993
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Wallace began teaching literature as an adjunct professor at Emerson College in Boston
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1990· 1 entry
That they were "agents of a great despair and stasis" in contemporary American culture
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1989· 2 entries
Wallace spent four weeks at McLean Hospital, a psychiatric institute in Belmont, Massachusetts, affiliated with Harvard Medical School, where he completed a drug and alcohol detoxification program; he later said his time
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Studied at Harvard University (1989–1989).
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1987· 2 entries
Awarded Whiting Awards (1987).
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Studied at University of Arizona, Master of Fine Arts (1985–1987).
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1985· 2 entries
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 (2010)
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Studied at Amherst College, Bachelor of Arts (1980–1985).
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1980· 1 entry
Studied at Urbana High School (1980).
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1962· 1 entry
Born 1962-02-21.
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