DAVID FOSTER WALLACE

David Foster Wallace in 2006. He was found dead in his home on Friday, after apparently committing suicide.

sed his prodigious gifts as a writer — his manic, exuberant prose, his ferocious powers of observation, his ability to fuse avant-garde techniques with old-fashioned moral seriousness — to create a series of strobe-lit portraits of a millennial America overdosing on the drugs of entertainment and self-gratification, and to capture, in the words of the musician Robert Plant, the myriad “deep and meaningless” facets of contemporary life.....MORE FROM NYTIMES