David Foster Wallace (1962–2008) was an American author of novels, essays, and short stories. In addition to writing, Wallace was employed as a professor at Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois, and Pomona College in Claremont, California.
Fiction
Novels
The Broom of the System (1987). Infinite Jest (1996). The Pale King (2011, posthumous).
Short story collections
Girl with Curious Hair (1989). Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (1999). Oblivion: Stories (2004).
Short fiction
1984: "The Planet Trillaphon As It Stands In Relation to The Bad Thing", Amherst Review 2009: republished in Tin House 1985: "Mr. Costigan in May", Clarion 1987: included in BOTS 1987: "Lyndon", Arrival 1989: included in Girl with Curious Hair 1987: "Here and There", Fiction 1989: included in Girl with Curious Hair 1987: "Other Math", Western Humanities Review 1987: "Say Never", Florida Review 1989: included in Girl with Curious Hair 1987: "Solomon Silverfish", Sonora Review 1988: "John Billy", Conjunctions 1989: included in Girl with Curious Hair 1988: "Late Night", Playboy 1989: included in Girl with Curious Hair as "My Appearance" 1988: "Everything is Green", Puerto del Sol 1989: reprinted in Harper's 1989: included in Girl with Curious Hair 1988: "Little Expressionless Animals", Paris Review 1989: included in Girl with Curious Hair 1989: "Crash of 69", Between C&D 1989: "Luckily the Account Representative Knew CPR" in Girl with Curious Hair 1989: "Girl with Curious Hair" in Girl with Curious Hair 1989: "Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way" in Girl with Curious Hair 1991: "Church Not Made With Hands", Rampike 1999: included in BIHM 1991: "Forever Overhead", Fiction International 1999: reprinted in BIHM 1991: "Order and Flux in Northampton", Conjunctions 1992: "Rabbit Resurrected", Harper's 1993: "The Awakening of My Interest in Annular Systems", Harper's Excerpt from Infinite Jest 1994 "Several Birds", The New Yorker Excerpt from Infinite Jest 1995 "An Interval", The New Yorker Excerpt from Infinite Jest 1997: "Death Is Not The End", Grand Street 1999: reprinted (extended) in Brief Interviews with Hideous Men 1998: "A Radically Condensed History of Postindustrial Life", Ploughshares, Spring 1998 1999: reprinted (slightly extended) in Brief Interviews with Hideous Men 1998: "Brief Interviews with Hideous Men", Harper's 1999: reprinted (extended, but with interview 16 omitted) in Brief Interviews with Hideous Men 1998: "The Depressed Person", Harper's 1999: "Asset", The New Yorker Reprinted in Brief Interviews with Hideous Men 1999: "Another Example of the Porousness of Various Borders (VI): Projected but not Improbable Transcript of Author's Parents' Marriage's End, 1971.", McSweeney's, Issue No.3, Late Summer, Early Fall, 1999 Printed in its entirety on the spine of the issue Reprinted in Brief Interviews with Hideous Men 2002: "Peoria (4)", TriQuarterly #112 Excerpt from The Pale King 2002: "Peoria (9)", TriQuarterly #112 Excerpt from The Pale King 2007: "Good People", The New Yorker Excerpt from The Pale King 2008: "The Compliance Branch", Harper's Excerpt from The Pale King 2009 "Wiggle Room", The New Yorker Excerpt from The Pale King 2009 "All That", The New Yorker 2010 "A New Examiner," Harper's Excerpt from The Pale King 2011 "Backbone", The New Yorker Excerpt from The Pale King 2013 "The Awakening of My Interest in Advanced Tax", Madra Press Excerpt from The Pale King 2022 "Something To Do With Paying Attention", Simon and Schuster Excerpt from The Pale King
Nonfiction
Dates for entries in collections are the dates printed after the piece in the collection; the other dates are publication dates. Earliest dates are listed first; when they're the same the version in a collection is listed first, with the exception of Up, Simba! since the collected version references its magazine appearance and so was written afterward.
Collections
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again (1997). Consider the Lobster (2005). Both Flesh and Not (2012). [posthumous] String Theory: David Foster Wallace on Tennis (2016). [posthumous, Library of America Special Edition]