Novelist/essayist David Foster Wallace, 46, was found dead in his California home after apparently hanging himself Friday.
He had been teaching English and creative writing at Pomona College in Claremont, Calif. His best known work is probably the inventive "Infinite Jest" (1996), which he once told Salon magazine was an effort to describe America as it approached the millennium.
"There's something particularly sad about it," he said, in a comment that might be viewed as a clue to the circumstances of his death. But he also cited fiction as a way of overcoming what he called "this existential lostness in the real world," the Washington Post reports.
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