David Foster Wallace, the author best known for his 1996 novel “Infinite Jest,” was found dead in his home, according to police. He was 46. Wallace’s wife found her husband had hanged himself when she ...

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 ...

Today in books and publishing: 96-year-old Pulitzer Prize winner Herman Wouk gets a book deal, deconstructing Amazon's charitable ways, and a non-heartbreaking letter from David Foster Wallace to Don ...

Like Dostoyevsky, Wallace also views writing as a task and an ethical endeavor, a search for the meaning of life ...

Comedy actor Jason Segel will be playing writer David Foster Wallace in the upcoming film The End of The Tour. The movie is adapted from the 2010 book, Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: ...

D.T. Max almost approached David Foster Wallace at a book release party, but ended up getting cold feet. It was only after writing an entire book about the famed recluse that Max could be sure he made ...

I should say, the sentiment David Foster Wallace and David Lipsky talk about in the book is more about the futility of trying ...

Witness the uproarious frenzy of definition when David Foster Wallace cuts loose and tries to make a straightforward statement about the hideous men (and women) in his new book.

Jason Segel didn’t tell his book club he’d been cast as novelist David Foster Wallace in James Ponsoldt’s biopic The End of the Tour. “I didn’t want to sound like Fancy Pants McGee,” admits Segel over ...

David Foster Wallace (February 21, 1962 – September 12, 2008) was an American writer and professor who published novels, short stories, and essays. He is best known for his 1996 novel Infinite Jest, ...