David Foster Wallace (1962-2008) was an award-winning novelist, short-story writer, and essayist. He is best known for his 1996 novel Infinite Jest. Frequently referred to as the voice of his generation, he won a multitude of prizes and accolades before committing suicide in 2008.
"One of the big talents of his generation, a writer of virtuosic talents who can seemingly do anything." --THE NEW YORK TIMES "In a culture that depletes you daily of your capacity for imagination, for language, for autonomous thought, complexity like Dave's is a gift." --Zadie Smith "The funniest writer of his generation." --VOICE LITERARY SUPPLEMENT "A prose magician. . . He could map the infinite and infinitesimal, the mythic and mundane." --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "DFW married soaring stylistic virtuosity with deep compassion for thwarted lives." --Boyd Tonkin, THE INDEPENDENT "The literary world has produced few figures more flamboyantly talented and prophetically dialed in to the compulsions and concerns that keep us up late at night than David Foster Wallace. This compact volume promises to shed light on Wallace's scope of influence on his peers and his state of mind in the months before he died." --THE BIOGRAPHILE
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