Author: Robert McKenna Date: To: Lou Smith, Strange and unusual music. Subject: Re: [Exotica] [obit] Breno Mello, David Foster Wallace
That's so sad. Really hard to take in. His poor wife.
> Writer David Foster Wallace found dead
>
> Claremont police say the novelist and humorist who wrote 'Infinite
> Jest,' hanged himself Friday night. He was 46.
>
> By Joel Rubin
> Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
>
> 5:31 PM PDT, September 13, 2008
>
> David Foster Wallace, the novelist, essayist and humorist best known
> for his 1996 tome "Infinite Jest," was found dead last night at his
> home in Claremont, according to the Claremont Police Department. He
> was 46.
>
> Jackie Morales, a records clerk at the Claremont Police Department,
> said Wallace's wife called police at 9:30 p.m. Friday saying she had
> returned home to find her husband had hanged himself.
>
> Wallace won a cult following for his dark humor and ironic wit, which
> was on display in such books as "Girl with Curious Hair" and "Brief
> Interviews with Hideous Men." In 1997, he received a MacArthur
> "genius" grant.
>
> Born in Ithaca, New York, Wallace was teaching writing at Pomona
> College.
>
