David Foster Wallace

David Foster Wallace

David Foster Wallace was an American writer and professor who published novels, short stories, and essays. He is best known for his 1996 novel Infinite Jest, which Time magazine named one of the 100 best English-language novels published from 1923 to 2005. In 2008, David Ulin wrote for the Los Angeles Times that Wallace was "one of the most influential and innovative writers of the last twenty years".

Complete Bibliography

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Standalone Works

30 Books
Little Expressionless Animals
1988

Little Expressionless Animals

1988
Libro Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way
1989

Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way

1989
Signifying Rappers: Rap and Race in the Urban Present
1990

Signifying Rappers: Rap and Race in the Urban Present

1990
Infinite Jest
1996

Infinite Jest

1996
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
1997

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again

1997
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
1999

Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

1999
Oblivion: Stories
2004

Oblivion: Stories

2004
Consider the Lobster
2005

Consider the Lobster

2005
This Is Water
2009

This Is Water

2009
The Pale King
2011

The Pale King

2011
Libro Fate, Time, and Language
2011

Fate, Time, and Language

2011
String Theory
2014

String Theory

2014
Here and There

Here and There

Lyndon

Lyndon

Host

Host

Girl with Curious Hair

Girl with Curious Hair

Luckily the Account Representative Knew CPR

Luckily the Account Representative Knew CPR

John Billy

John Billy

Everything Is Green

Everything Is Green

Say Never

Say Never

Good Old Neon

Good Old Neon

Big Red Son

Big Red Son

Certainly the End of Something or Other, One Would Sort of Have to Think

Certainly the End of Something or Other, One Would Sort of Have to Think

Authority and American Usage

Authority and American Usage

The View from Mrs. Thompson's

The View from Mrs. Thompson's

Up, Simba

Up, Simba

Joseph Frank's Dostoevsky

Joseph Frank's Dostoevsky

Derivative Sport in Tornado Alley

Derivative Sport in Tornado Alley

David Lynch Keeps His Head

David Lynch Keeps His Head

Tennis Player Michael Joyce's Professional Artistry as a Paradigm of Certain Stuff about Choice, Freedom, Discipline, Joy, Grotesquerie, and Human Completeness

Tennis Player Michael Joyce's Professional Artistry as a Paradigm of Certain Stuff about Choice, Freedom, Discipline, Joy, Grotesquerie, and Human Completeness