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RIP David Foster Wallace (February 1962 – September 2008)

The NYT reports:

“David Foster Wallace, whose darkly ironic novels, essays and short stories garnered him a large following and made him one of the most influential writers of his generation, was found dead in his California home on Friday, after apparently committing suicide, the authorities said.

“Mr. Wallace, 46, best known for his sprawling 1,079-page novel Infinite Jest [1996], was discovered by his wife, Karen Green, who returned home to find that he had hanged himself, a spokesman for the Claremont, Calif., police said Saturday evening.”

He also published a collection of essays, A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again, and a short story collection, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men. He had taught writing at Pomona College (Claremont, CA) since 2002.

Website.| LA Times obit. | BlogCritics remembrance.

Posted by M Wms on Sunday, September 14, 2008, at 9:00 am. Filed under literary obits, obituaries, postmodern. Follow any responses to this post with its comments RSS feed. Comments are closed, but you can trackback from your blog.

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