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(1962-2008) Writer. David Foster Wallace was born in Ithaca, New York and died in Claremont, California.

Full Name

David Foster Wallace

Locations

Tompkins

Author's Timeline


1962

BIRTH

David Foster Wallace was born in Ithaca, New York in 1962.

1987

LITWORK

The Broom of the System
Viking.

Novel.

1989

LITWORK

Girls With Curious Hair


Collection of short fiction.

1990

LITWORK

Signifying Rappers: Rap and Race In the Urban Present


Nonfiction written with Mark Costello.

1996

LITWORK

Infinite Jest
Little, Brown.

Novel.

1997

LITWORK

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments


Collection on nonfiction.

1999

LITWORK

Brief Interviews With Hideous Men


Collection of short fiction.

2000

LITWORK

Up, Simba!


Nonfiction.

2003

LITWORK

Everything and More

0-393-00338-8
Nonfiction.

2004

LITWORK

Oblivion: Stories


Collection of short fiction.

2005

LITWORK

Consider the Lobster

0-316-15611-6
Nonfiction.

2008

DEATH

David Foster Wallace died in Calremont, California, in 2008.

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