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About David Foster Wallace

David Foster Wallace (February 21, 1962 – September 12, 2008) was an American writer and professor who published novels, short stories, and essays. He is most widely known for his 1996 novel Infinite Jest. In 2008, David Ulin wrote for the Los Angeles Times that Wallace was "one of the most influential and innovative writers of the last twenty years".

Wallace grew up in Illinois. He graduated from Amherst College and the University of Arizona. His honors thesis at Amherst was adapted into his debut novel The Broom of the System (1987). In his writing, Wallace intentionally avoided tropes of postmodern art such as irony or forms of metafiction, saying in 1990 that they were "agents of a great despair and stasis" in contemporary American culture. Infinite Jest, his second novel, is known for its unconventional narrative structure and extensive use of endnotes.

Wallace published three short story collections: Girl with Curious Hair (1989), Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (1999) and Oblivion: Stories (2004). His short stories and essays were published in outlets like The New Yorker and Rolling Stone magazines, and three collections of his essays were published as books: A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again (1997), Consider the Lobster (2005) and Both Flesh and Not (2012). Wallace also taught English and creative writing at Emerson College, Illinois State University, and Pomona College.

David Foster Wallace writes about Fiction, Fiction, general, Interviews, Fiction, short stories (single author), Fiction, humorous, general, and Essays (single author). Their best-known work is Infinite Jest.

On FindMyTBR we track 35 books by David Foster Wallace, 35 of them confirmed as audiobooks on Spotify or Apple Books — including A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments, and Algo supuestamente divertido que nunca volveré a hacer. Full availability across Spotify, Apple Books, Audible, and Amazon is below.