id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-952 David Foster Wallace - Wikipedia .html text/html 5406 726 72 David Foster Wallace (February 21, 1962 – September 12, 2008) was an American author of novels, short stories and essays, as well as a university professor of English and creative writing. Wallace covered Senator John McCain's 2000 presidential campaign[51] and the September 11 attacks for Rolling Stone;[52] cruise ships[53] (in what became the title essay of his first nonfiction book), state fairs, and tornadoes for Harper's Magazine; the US Open tournament for Tennis magazine; the director David Lynch and the pornography industry for Premiere magazine; the tennis player Michael Joyce for Esquire; the movie-special-effects industry for Waterstone's magazine; conservative talk radio host John Ziegler for The Atlantic;[54] and a Maine lobster festival for Gourmet magazine.[55] He also reviewed books in several genres for the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The New York Times, and The Philadelphia Inquirer. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-952.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-952.txt