He was only forty-six when he killed himself, which helped explain the sense of loss readers and critics felt. Wallace’s death was followed by four public memorial services, celebrations of his work in newspapers and magazines, and tributes on the Web. and linguistically calisthenic.” Illustration by Philip Burke Wallace worried that he had been driven by a “basically vapid urge to be avant-garde.
None had delivered any significant relief from the pain and feelings of emotional isolation that rendered the depressed person’s every waking hour an indescribable hell on earth.” He never published a word about his own mental illness. In “The Depressed Person,” a short story about an unhappy narcissistic young woman-included in Wallace’s 1999 collection, “Brief Interviews with Hideous Men”-he wrote, “Paxil, Zoloft, Prozac, Tofranil, Wellbutrin, Elavil, Metrazol in combination with unilateral ECT (during a two-week voluntary in-patient course of treatment at a regional Mood Disorders clinic), Parnate both with and without lithium salts, Nardil both with and without Xanax. During this time, he produced two long novels, three collections of short stories, two books of essays and reporting, and “Everything and More,” a history of infinity. The condition had first been diagnosed when he was an undergraduate at Amherst College, in the early eighties ever since, he had taken medication to manage its symptoms. For many months, Wallace had been in a deep depression. His wife, Karen Green, came home to find that he had hanged himself on the patio of their house, in Claremont, California. The writer David Foster Wallace committed suicide on September 12th of last year.
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