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David Foster Wallace

1962 - 2008

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David Foster Wallace (February 21, 1962 – September 12, 2008) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and university professor of English and creative writing. Wallace's 1996 novel Infinite Jest was cited by Time magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005. His posthumous novel, The Pale King (2011), was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2012. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of David Foster Wallace has received more than 10,415,002 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). David Foster Wallace is the 3,167th most popular writer (up from 3,512th in 2019), the 4,146th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,695th in 2019) and the 367th most popular American Writer.

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  • 51.12

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 40

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.31

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.47

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, David Foster Wallace ranks 3,167 out of 5,755Before him are Ozaki Kōyō, Georges Sadoul, Theodor Körner, Diphilus, Fernand Crommelynck, and Lucius Cornelius Sisenna. After him are Moderata Fonte, Sigurd Hoel, Yury Vlasov, Alexander Sumarokov, Karl Philipp Moritz, and Archpoet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1962, David Foster Wallace ranks 115Before him are Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, Galina Chistyakova, Choi Min-sik, Ferran Adrià, Peter Steele, and Branko Crvenkovski. After him are Michel Qissi, Bassel al-Assad, Sergio Batista, Victoria Ruffo, Dorian Yates, and Maia Morgenstern. Among people deceased in 2008, David Foster Wallace ranks 146Before him are Nina Foch, Freddie Hubbard, Germaine Tillion, Stan Winston, Grigory Romanov, and John List. After him are Ahmed al-Mirghani, Boris Yefimov, Edwin Ernest Salpeter, Mikel Laboa, Fujio Akatsuka, and Edna Parker.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, David Foster Wallace ranks 4,146 out of 18,182Before him are Jim Davis (1909), Link Wray (1929), John List (1925), Lindsey Buckingham (1949), Cameron Mitchell (1918), and Marion Ross (1928). After him are David Hedison (1927), Randy Crawford (1952), Ciara (1985), Lee Konitz (1927), Tony Hawk (1968), and Yusef Lateef (1920).

Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, David Foster Wallace ranks 367Before him are Jim Carroll (1949), Bill Bryson (1951), John Perkins (1945), Spencer Johnson (1938), James Russell Lowell (1819), and Emma Lazarus (1849). After him are Joss Whedon (1964), Elbert Hubbard (1856), Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906), Wallace Stevens (1879), Bruce Sterling (1954), and Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892).