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Sep 14, 2008, 14:16 GMT

US writer David Foster Wallace hangs himself

Los Angeles - Cult US writer David Foster Wallace has been found dead at his home in Claremont, California, the Los Angeles Times reported Sunday.

Wallace, 46, had hanged himself Friday evening, his wife told police. She had found him when she returned home. Wallace was known for his black humor. His most famous work is Infinite Jest from 1996, a dark parody of the future. His debut novel was The Broom of the System in 1987. Other works include Girl With Curious Hair from 1989 and A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments from 1997. 'He is one of the main writers who brought ambition, a sense of play, a joy in storytelling and an exuberant experimentalism of form back to the novel in the late '80s and early 1990s,' Los Angeles Times book editor David Ulin said. Wallace had been teaching a creative writing class at Pomona College in Claremont since 2002.

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