The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.
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Worship your body, beauty, and sexual allure and you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you.
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Birth: | 21st February, 1962 |
Death: | 12th September, 2008 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Essayist, Novelist, Professor, Writer |
David Foster Wallace was born in Ithaca, New York. He was an American novelist, essayist, writer and professor of English and creative writing. He is widely known for his 1996 novel Infinite Jest, which was cited by Time magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005. Wallace's last, unfinished novel, The Pale King, was published in 2011 and was a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His other honors thesis, written for his English major, eventually became his first novel, The Broom of the System. He pursued a Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing at the University of Arizona, completing it in 1987, by which time Broom had been published.
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