David Foster Wallace

David Foster Wallace

novelist (February 21, 1962 – September 12, 2008)

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American novelist and essayist; recipient of a MacArthur Foundation grant (1997) and Professor of Creative Writing at Pomona College (2002-2008)

Note: Wallace took his own life on September 13, 2008. Read the New York Times obituary.

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