How Did David Foster Wallace Die? Date of Death, Cause of Death, Age, and Birthday

The novelist David Foster Wallace passed away at age 46, too young.

Biography - A Short Wiki

Brilliant but troubled author who is best known for Infinite Jest (1996) and other philosophically complex novels. He committed suicide at the age of forty-six.

His father was on the faculty of the University of Illinois and his mother taught English at an Illinois community college.

How did David Foster Wallace die?

Suicide caused David Foster Wallace's death in 2008.

Information about the death of David Foster Wallace

Cause of death	Suicide
Age of death	46 years
Profession	Novelist
Birthday	February 21, 1962
Death date	September 12, 2008
Place of death	N/A
Place of burial	N/A

Quotes

For these cultures, getting rid of the pain without addressing the deeper cause would be like shutting off a fire alarm while the fire’s still going.

David Foster Wallace

I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader.

David Foster Wallace

This is so American, man: either make something your God and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it.

David Foster Wallace

The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.

David Foster Wallace

Fiction’s about what it is to be a human being.

David Foster Wallace