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brndck
09-13-2008, 08:15 PM
i'm way fucking bummed about this. i've read everything he's written repeatedly, and never found any other authors to be as challenging or as in depth as he was.

Writer David Foster Wallace found dead at home - Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080914/ap_en_ot/obit_wallace)

Writer David Foster Wallace found dead at home

6 minutes ago

CLAREMONT, Calif. - David Foster Wallace, the author best known for his 1996 novel "Infinite Jest," was found dead in his home, according to police. He was 46.
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Wallace's wife found her husband had hanged himself when she returned home about 9:30 p.m. Friday, said Jackie Morales, a records clerk with the Claremont Police Department.

Wallace taught creative writing and English at nearby Pomona College.

Wallace's first novel, "The Broom of the System," gained national attention in 1987 for its ambition and offbeat humor. The New York Times said the 24-year-old author "attempts to give us a portrait, through a combination of Joycean word games, literary parody and zany picaresque adventure, of a contemporary America run amok."

Published in 1996, "Infinite Jest" cemented Wallace's reputation as a major American literary figure. The 1,000-plus-page tome, praised for its complexity and dark wit, topped many best-of lists. Time Magazine named "Infinite Jest" in its issue of the "100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005."

Wallace received a "genius grant" from the MacArthur Foundation in 1997. His short fiction was published in Esquire, GQ, Harper's, The New Yorker and the Paris Review. He wrote nonfiction for a number of publications, including an essay on the U.S. Open for Tennis magazine and a profile of the director David Lynch for Premiere.

Born in Ithaca, N.Y., Wallace attended Amherst College and the University of Illinois.

mRclARK1
09-13-2008, 10:22 PM
That's to bad. Sounds like he was a talented guy.

RIP

SexPanda
09-13-2008, 10:32 PM
I thought it would be Steven King or Dean Koontz or something...


Then I read it and was like who the fuck is this guy? So I googled it, and read some of his short stories, and now im kinda sad too.

BlckBeautyVTEC
09-13-2008, 11:11 PM
Hemingway syndrome bummer

BustedS13
09-13-2008, 11:13 PM
i was really concerned chuck palahniuk had killed himself.

that's too bad, though. RIP