He was 46 and considered by many - to use the cliché he hated and which haunted him - the best writer of his generation.ĭuring the year - which also saw the death of John Updike, the greatest American writer of the second half of the 20th century - Wallace has been eulogized in four public memorials, profiled in The New Yorker and Rolling Stone and the recipient of scores of tributes, celebrations and personal remembrances in newspapers and on the Web.īorn in Ithaca, New York, in 1962, Wallace was the author of two novels, three collections of short stories, two collections of nonfiction and numerous essays, magazine articles and criticism. On September 12, 2008, the American writer David Foster Wallace committed suicide in Claremont, California. NOTE! Consider delaying until first div on page If (slot) slot.addService(googletag.pubads()) (function (a, d, o, r, i, c, u, p, w, m) A supposedly fun thing he'll never do again - The Jerusalem Post
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