![]() ![]() It was an autobiographical story that told of the intense bouts of depression and pain he suffered. ![]() He got his first taste of publishing when the “Amherst Review” published “The Planet Trillaphon,” a short story that was among several stories he had written. Until then, reading was all about getting information in a pleasurable way. During this time, he suffered from depression and started writing fiction as a form of escape. He was also a member of the glee and debate clubs and smoked a lot of pot with his friends. He loved algorithms and proof completions as they gave him a sort of buzz. In his teenage years at Amherst, David Foster Wallace loved philosophy and mathematics. As a twelve year old at Amherst, he was a winner of a local poetry contest when he wrote a poem titled “Did you know that rats breed there?” The poem was inspired by the condition of a polluted creek near his school. His mother usually brought home the “Encyclopaedia Britannica” that the entire family would read through. Sally, his mother, was an English teacher who encouraged reading and hence Wallace and Amy, his younger sister were brought up in a home with a reading culture. James, his father, was a philosophy major and when he was three years old, his father got employment as a professor at the University of Illinois. David Foster Wallace was a literary fiction author, essayist and satirical author that was best known for his novel “The Broom of the System.” The author was born in Ithaca New York in 1962 and died in 2008. ![]()
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