A Life Remembered: Writer Wallace 'central' to postmodernism
By Melissa Merli
Tuesday September 16, 2008
As a ranked junior tennis player, David Foster Wallace found the Midwest wind to be his friend.
The wind, coupled with having grown up in what he later described as his mathematically "boxed township of Illinois farmland," helped make him what he called a "near-great tennis player" between the ages of 12 and 15.
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