David Foster Wallace
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David Foster Wallace (February 21 1962 – September 12 2008) was an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer, best-known for his heavily footnoted 1996 novel Infinite Jest.
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Bibliography
Novels
- The Broom of the System (1987)
- Infinite Jest (1996)
Short story collections
- Girl with Curious Hair (1989) (published in Europe as Westward the Course of the Empire Takes Its Way)
- Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (1999)
- Oblivion: Stories (2004)
Nonfiction
- Signifying Rappers: Rap and Race In the Urban Present (1990), coauthored with Mark Costello
- A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again (1997)
- Up, Simba! (2000)
- Everything and More (2003) (First hardcover ed.: ISBN 0-393-00338-8)
- Consider the Lobster (2005) (First hardcover ed.: ISBN 0-316-15611-6)
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