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David Foster Wallace

About the Author

David Foster Wallace was born in Ithaca, New York, in 1962 and raised in Illinois, where he was a regionally ranked junior tennis player. He received bachelor of arts degrees in philosophy and English from Amherst College and wrote what would become his first novel, The Broom of the System, as his senior English thesis. He received a masters of fine arts from University of Arizona in 1987 and briefly pursued graduate work in philosophy at Harvard University. His second novel, Infinite Jest, was published in 1996. Wallace taught creative writing at Emerson College, Illinois State University, and Pomona College, and published the story collections Girl with Curious Hair, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Oblivion, the essay collections A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again, and Consider the Lobster. He was awarded the MacArthur Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award, and a Whiting Writers’ Award, and was appointed to the Usage Panel for The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. He died in 2008. His last novel, The Pale King, was published in 2011.

Infinite Jest

Infinite Jest

by David Foster Wallace, Foreword by Dave Eggers, Read by Sean Pratt

This Is Water: Booktrack Edition

This Is Water: Booktrack Edition

Read by Amy Wallace, by David Foster Wallace, Read by David Foster Wallace

The David Foster Wallace Reader

The David Foster Wallace Reader

by David Foster Wallace

Girl With Curious Hair

Girl With Curious Hair

by David Foster Wallace

On Tennis

On Tennis

by David Foster Wallace

David Foster Wallace: In His Own Words

David Foster Wallace: In His Own Words

by David Foster Wallace, Read by David Foster Wallace

Both Flesh and Not

Both Flesh and Not

by David Foster Wallace

Signifying Rappers

Signifying Rappers

by David Foster Wallace, by Mark Costello

Infinite Jest Part III: The Endnotes

Infinite Jest Part III: The Endnotes

by David Foster Wallace, Read by Sean Pratt

Infinite Jest: Part I With a Foreword by Dave Eggers

Infinite Jest: Part I With a Foreword by Dave Eggers

by David Foster Wallace, Read by Sean Pratt

Infinite Jest: Part II

Infinite Jest: Part II

by David Foster Wallace, Read by Sean Pratt

The Pale King

The Pale King

by David Foster Wallace

Getting Away from Already Being Pretty Much Away from It All

Getting Away from Already Being Pretty Much Away from It All

by David Foster Wallace

Girl With Curious Hair

Girl With Curious Hair

by David Foster Wallace, Read by Joshua Swanson, Read by Robert Petkoff

The Broom of the System

The Broom of the System

by David Foster Wallace, Read by Robert Petkoff

This Is Water

This Is Water

by David Foster Wallace

McCain’s Promise

McCain’s Promise

Foreword by Jacob Weisberg, by David Foster Wallace

Consider the Lobster

Consider the Lobster

by David Foster Wallace

Infinite Jest

Infinite Jest

by David Foster Wallace

Consider the Lobster

Consider the Lobster

by David Foster Wallace, Read by David Foster Wallace

Oblivion

Oblivion

by David Foster Wallace

Up, Simba!

Up, Simba!

by David Foster Wallace

Brief Interviews With Hideous Men

Brief Interviews With Hideous Men

by David Foster Wallace

A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again

A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again

by David Foster Wallace