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Writer David Foster Wallace, Dead at 46

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September 13, 2008 | 11:26 p.m
Wallace at <i>The New Yorker</i> Festival in 2002<br /> (Getty Images)
Wallace at The New Yorker Festival in 2002
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Infinite Jest author David Foster Wallace is dead of an apparent suicide, according to reports from the Associated Press, The Los Angeles Times, and others.

According to AP:

Wallace's wife found her husband had hanged himself when she returned home about 9:30 p.m. Friday, said Jackie Morales, a records clerk with the Claremont Police Department. 

Wallace taught creative writing and English at nearby Pomona College.

Mr. Wallace, who received a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant" in 1997, just saw the release of McCain's Promise: Aboard the Straight Talk Express David Foster Wallace, a book-length expansion of his 2000 campaign report about Republican presidential nominee John McCain. A film version of his book Brief Interviews with Hideous Men is in production with The Office's John Krasinski adapting and directing.

Expect updates as more info is known.

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