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David Wallace (philosopher)
David or Dave Wallace may refer to: Arts and entertainment * David Foster Wallace (1962–2008), American novelist and essayist * David Rains Wallace (born 1945), author on conservation and natural history * David Wallace (American actor) (born 1958), American actor * David Wallace (Scottish actor), Scottish actor and theatre director * David Wallace (The Office), David Wallace (''The Office''), fictional CEO of Dunder Mifflin on the US TV series ''The Office'' Politics * David Euan Wallace (1892–1941), British Conservative member of parliament * David G. Wallace, American businessman and politician, mayor of Sugar Land, Texas * David J. Wallace (Oklahoma politician), state legislator who was African American * David Wallace (Arkansas politician), U.S. Army officer and member of the Arkansas Senate * David Wallace (Indiana politician) (1799–1859), American politician, governor of the state of Indiana * David Wardrope Wallace (1850–1924), Canadian MP for Russell, 1903–1904 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace (February 21, 1962 – September 12, 2008) was an American writer and professor who published novels, short stories, and essays. He is best known for his 1996 novel ''Infinite Jest'', which ''Time (magazine), Time'' magazine named one of the 100 best English-language novels published from 1923 to 2005. In 2008, David Ulin wrote for the ''Los Angeles Times'' that Wallace was "one of the most influential and innovative writers of the last twenty years". Wallace grew up in Illinois. He graduated from Amherst College and the University of Arizona. His honors thesis at Amherst, about modal logic, was adapted into his debut novel The Broom of the System, ''The Broom of the System'' (1987). In his writing, Wallace intentionally avoided Trope (literature), tropes of postmodern art such as irony or forms of metafiction, saying in 1990 that they were "agents of a great despair and stasis" in contemporary American culture. ''Infinite Jest'', his second novel, is known f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
