Today would have been the 51st birthday of David Foster Wallace if not for his tragic death in 2008. Lauded by readers, critics and his literary peers as one of the most important voices of his ...

David Foster Wallace hanged himself at his home in California on Friday, Sept. 12, 2008, at the age of 46. A precocious and preternaturally talented writer, Wallace was regarded by many critics ...

All of which makes David Lipsky's new book, Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace, so compelling. David Lipsky, a journalist and novelist, was sent ...

David Foster Wallace was born in 1962 and lived for 46 years. ... Religion and Recovery. Wallace came honestly by his brilliance, his passion for words, and his melancholy.

That quote, from the widely used “Twelve Traditions” guidelines for 12-step programs, is delivered by Wallace—in the context of denying he’s in the program—essentially verbatim.

Whether you're a hardcore David Foster Wallace fan or a total newcomer to the late author's works, you're bound to love The End of the Tour , a new movie chronicling a few days in the writer's ...

David Foster Wallace, who took his own life in 2008, was a courageous man. He was a university professor, a prolific writer of essays and novels, and a MacArthur Foundation Fellow, but none of ...

I knew the late David Foster Wallace a very little bit—not much to speak of, really, but I wrote about his work often. An interview that I did with him during the book tour for “Infinite Jest ...

Novelist David Foster Wallace gave a speech called "This Is Water" to the 2005 graduating class at Kenyon College. The speech, which has become legendary, discusses how meaningless daily routines ...

David Foster Wallace wrote about tennis because life gave it to him—he had played the game well at the junior level—and because he was a writer who in his own way made use of wilder days ...

David Foster Wallace, a writer who was known for his sprawling postmodern novels and humorous, heavily footnoted essays and journalism, died on Friday in an apparent suicide. He was 46.

Jason Segel on playing David Foster Wallace: “I’m starting to think the things we’ve been told will make us feel good are a lie” How the star of "Sex Tape" took on the Gen-X literary ...