David Foster Wallace Found Dead

By Marcus Gilmer in News on Sep 14, 2008 3:00PM

Acclaimed novelist and essayist David Foster Wallace was found dead in his California home on Friday from an apparent suicide. Among his more renowned tomes were Infinite Jest and A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again. Wallace spent part of his childhood in Urbana; his father taught philosophy at the University of Illinois and his mother was an English teacher at Parkland College in Champaign. Wallace was teaching at Illinois State when Infinite Jest was released, earning him wide acclaim. Wallace and his wife were currently living in Claremont, California, where Wallace was a professor of English at Pomona College. Man, we are seriously bummed.

Check out this old Wallace interview with Charlie Rose.