David Foster Wallace Writer

David Foster Wallace (February 21, 1962 – September 12, 2008) was an American author of novels, short stories and essays, as well as a 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". Wallace's last, unfinished novel, The Pale King, was published in 2011 and was a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. A biography of Wallace was published in September 2012, and an extensive critical literature on his work has developed in the past decade.

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Birth date	February 21, 1962
Birth place	Ithaca New York
Date of death	September 12, 2008
Place of death	Claremont California

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Career start	0020
Career end	0021
genre	Non-fiction Literary fiction
influenced	Neal Stephenson Zadie Smith John Green (author) Dave Eggers John Jeremiah Sullivan Benjamin Kunkel Chris Bachelder Adam Levin Joshua Ferris Erik Marcus Wells Tower Chad Harbach
influenced by	David Lynch Thomas Pynchon Richard Powers Manuel Puig Don DeLillo William Gaddis Donald Barthelme Cynthia Ozick
movement	Postmodern literature Metamodernism Hysterical realism
notable work	Infinite Jest A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again Brief Interviews with Hideous Men The Pale King