David Foster Wallace
Novelist (February 21, 1962 – September 12, 2008)Novelist (February 21, 1962 – September 12, 2008)
American novelist and essayist; recipient of a MacArthur Foundation grant (1997) and Professor of Creative Writing at Pomona College (2002-2008)
Note: Wallace took his own life on September 13, 2008. Read the New York Times obituary.