David Foster Wallace was born in Ithaca, New York, in 1962 and raised in Illinois, where he was a regionally ranked junior tennis player.
His last novel, The Pale King , was published in 2011..
He died in 2008.
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.
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 .
His second novel, Infinite Jest , was published in 1996.
He received a masters of fine arts from University of Arizona in 1987 and briefly pursued graduate work in philosophy at Harvard University.
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.
David Foster Wallace was born in Ithaca, New York, in 1962 and raised in Illinois, where he was a regionally ranked junior tennis player
