David Foster Wallace

David Foster Wallace is an American writer and professor of English and creative writing, best known for his 1996 novel Infinite Jest. He held the Roy E. Disney Endowed Professor of Creative Writing position at Pomona College in Claremont, California from 2002 until his death in 2008. Wallace is widely recognized for his fiction and essays exploring themes of entertainment, addiction, consciousness, and the default settings of human attention and worship, and is considered one of the most influential and innovative writers of his generation.