David Foster Wallace, Famed Writer, a Suicide at 46

By: E&P Staff The well-known writer David Foster Wallace has been found dead in his Southern California home. He was 46.

Jackie Morales, a records clerk with the Claremont Police Department, says Wallace's wife found he had hanged himself when she returned home about 9:30 p.m. Friday.

Wallace's first novel, ''The Broom of the System,'' gained recognition, but his best known work was 1996's ''Infinite Jest.'' He wrote book reviews for newspapers and a famous article about John McCain in 2000 for Rolling Stone that has now appeared as a book.

He received a genius grant from the MacArthur Foundation in 1997 and he taught creative writing and English at Pomona College.