Author David Foster Wallace Found Dead

Author and Pomona College English teacher David Foster Wallace has died from an apparent suicide. The 46-year-old, who is perhaps best known for his 1996 novel ‘Infinite Jest,’ was found dead by his wife on Friday.

According to a records clerk at a Claremont, California police department, Wallace had hanged himself in his home.

Times book editor David Ulin said he was “speechless and just blown away” by Wallace’s death.

“He was one of the most influential and innovative writers of the last 20 years,” Ulin said. “He is one of the main writers who brought an ambition, a sense of play, a joy in storytelling and an exuberant experimentalism of form back to the novel in the late 80s and early 1990s. And he really resotred the notion of the novel as a kind of canvas on which a writer can do anything.”

Wallace’s first novel, Girl with Curious Hair, was released in 1987. He followed the novel with a collection of short stories in 1989 titles, “A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments.”

He began teaching English and creative writing at Pomona College since 2002. He was on leave this semester.

Wallace is survived by his wife, parents and a sister.

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