David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace was an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist, as well as a professor of English and creative writing. Wallace is widely known for his 1996 novel Infinite Jest, which was cited by Time magazine as one of the 100 best Englishlanguage novels from 1923 to 2005.
Wallace was born in Ithaca, New York, the son of Sally Jean and James Donald Wallace. In his early childhood, Wallace lived in Champaign, Illinois. In fourth grade, he moved to Urbana and attended Yankee Ridge school and Urbana High School. As an adolescent, Wallace was a regionally ranked junior tennis player, an experience he reflects upon in the essay Derivative Sport in Tornado Alley .
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