David Foster Wallace (1962–2008)
Autor de La broma infinita
Sobre El Autor
Writer David Foster Wallace was born in Ithaca, New York on February 21, 1962. He received a B.A. from Amherst College in Massachusetts. He was working on his master's degree in creative writing at the University of Arizona when he published his debut novel The Broom of the System (1987). Wallace mostrar más published his second novel Infinite Jest (1996) which introduced a cast of characters that included recovering alcoholics, foreign statesmen, residents of a halfway house, and high-school tennis stars. He spent four years researching and writing this novel. His first collection of short stories was Girl with Curious Hair (1989). He also published a nonfiction work titled Signifying Rappers: Rap and Race in the Urban Present. He committed suicide on September 12, 2008 at the age of 46 after suffering with bouts of depression for 20 years. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Obras de David Foster Wallace
String Theory: David Foster Wallace on Tennis: A Library of America Special Publication (2016) 194 copias, 6 reseñas
David Foster Wallace: The Last Interview and Other Conversations (2012) — Autor — 112 copias, 8 reseñas
Quack This Way: David Foster Wallace & Bryan A. Garner Talk Language and Writing (2013) 98 copias, 3 reseñas
McCain's Promise: Aboard the Straight Talk Express with John McCain and a Whole Bunch of Actual Reporters,… (2008) 83 copias, 2 reseñas
Selected Essays from: Consider the Lobster and Other Essays {abridged audio} (2005) 33 copias, 3 reseñas
Dit is water enkele gedachten over meevoelend leven die werden uitgesproken bij een bijzondere gelegenheid (2023) 4 copias, 1 reseña
Derivative Sport in Tornado Alley 3 copias
Good People 3 copias
He ballat breument la conga. 3 copias
The Gospel of God Romans 2 copias
Entrevistas breves con hombres 2 copias
Infinite Jest: Part II 2 copias
On His Deathbed, Holding Your Hand 2 copias
Lyndon [novella] 2 copias
Forever Overhead 2 copias
Il canale del dolore (in Oblio) 1 copia
Un altro pioniere (in Oblio) 1 copia
Remembering David Foster Wallace 1 copia
Teoria das cordas 1 copia
Mister Squishy (in Oblio) 1 copia
Uncollected Works of DFW 1 copia
PROFESOR DAVID FOSTER WALLACE 1 copia
Unendlicher Spaß Teil 1 1 copia
A New Examiner 1 copia
Unendlicher Spass Teil 2 1 copia
Unendlicher Spass Teil 3 1 copia
Greatly exaggerated [essay] 1 copia
Sonora Review 12 (Summer 1987) — Fiction Editor — 1 copia
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Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present (2007) — Contribuidor — 191 copias, 2 reseñas
The Graphic Canon, Vol. 3: From Heart of Darkness to Hemingway to Infinite Jest (2013) — Contribuidor — 150 copias, 1 reseña
Shiny Adidas Tracksuits and the Death of Camp and Other Essays from Might Magazine (1998) — Contribuidor — 148 copias, 3 reseñas
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Contribuidor — 134 copias, 1 reseña
The Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction (2008) — Contribuidor — 126 copias, 1 reseña
Generación quemada : (una antología de autores norteamericanos) (2001) — Contribuidor — 123 copias, 1 reseña
The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present (2020) — Contribuidor — 84 copias
The Chaffey Review: Volume 1 (January 2009) — Contribuidor — 2 copias
Clarion: Writing at Amherst 1985 — Contribuidor — 1 copia
Sonora Review 56 — Contribuidor — 1 copia
Sonora Review 13 (Fall 1987) — Contribuidor — 1 copia
The New Yorker, Dec. 14, 2009 — Contributor - Fiction — 1 copia
Thomas Demand: L'Esprit d'Escalier — Contribuidor — 1 copia
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Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1962-02-21
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 2008-09-12
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Ithaca, New York, USA
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Claremont, California, USA
- Causa de fallecimiento
- suicide
- Lugares de residencia
- Claremont, California, USA
Ithaca, New York, USA
Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA
Normal, Illinois, USA - Educación
- Amherst College (BA|1985)
University of Arizona (MFA|1987) - Ocupaciones
- author
professor (Creative Writing) - Organizaciones
- Illinois State University
Pomona College - Premios y honores
- MacArthur Fellowship (1997)
Lannan Literary Award (Fiction, 1996)
Whiting Writers' Award (1987)
Miembros
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I Think, Therefore I Jest: EFs recursive IJ reading thread en Infinite Jesters (diciembre 2015)
David Foster Wallace en Legacy Libraries (agosto 2015)
Into the heart of America, zenomax's IJ thread. en Infinite Jesters (Enero 2013)
RSVP Thread for Infinite Jest, Opening the First Page on 01.01.2013 en Infinite Jesters (Enero 2013)
anna reads IJ en Infinite Jesters (Enero 2013)
Why you shouldn't read Infinite Jest; or, A Thread for Haters en Infinite Jesters (Enero 2013)
Year of Beelzebubba singing unforgettable Ethel Merman covers and reading Infinite Jest for the seco en Infinite Jesters (diciembre 2012)
When Art and Infinite Jest Collide en Infinite Jesters (diciembre 2012)
Out-of-the-Blue Question Thread: In which Infinite Jest's Themes are mined obliquely en Infinite Jesters (diciembre 2012)
INFINITE JEST: Its Structure en Infinite Jesters (noviembre 2012)
Looking for a prospective Infinite Jest reader willing to take the plunge en Book talk (noviembre 2010)
Requesting the help of some Infinite Jesters en Book talk (noviembre 2010)
Infinite Jest? en 1001 Books to read before you die (noviembre 2007)
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