Editing David Foster Wallace (section)

== Later life ==

In 2002, Wallace met the painter [[Karen Green (artist)|Karen L. Green]], whom he married on December 27, 2004.<ref name="artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com">{{Cite journal |last=Williams |first=John |date=September 12, 2012 |title=God, Mary Karr and Ronald Reagan: D.T. Max on David Foster Wallace |url=http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/12/god-mary-karr-and-ronald-reagan-d-t-max-on-david-foster-wallace/?_r=0 |issue=Arts Beat blog |journal=The New York Times}}</ref><ref name="NYT1">{{Cite news |last=Weber |first=Bruce |date=September 14, 2008 |title=David Foster Wallace, Influential Writer, Dies at 46 |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/15/books/15wallace.html?em |access-date=April 2, 2010}}</ref><ref name="RS">{{Cite magazine |last=Lipsky |first=David |date=October 30, 2008 |title=The Lost Years & Last Days of David Foster Wallace |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/23638511/the_lost_years__last_days_of_david_foster_wallace/print |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090503103755/http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/23638511/the_lost_years__last_days_of_david_foster_wallace/print |archive-date=May 3, 2009 |access-date=April 2, 2012 |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]}}</ref>
Wallace struggled with depression, alcoholism, drug addiction, and suicidal tendencies, and was repeatedly hospitalized for psychiatric care. In 1989, he spent four weeks at [[McLean Hospital]]—a psychiatric institute in [[Belmont, Massachusetts]], affiliated with Harvard Medical School—where he completed a drug and alcohol detoxification program. He later said his time there changed his life.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Max |first=D.&nbsp;T. |title=Every Love Story is a Ghost Story |date=2012 |publisher=Granta |isbn=9781847084958 |pages=134–135}}</ref>

Dogs were important to Wallace,<ref name="RS" /><ref name="Unfin">{{Cite magazine |last=Max |first=D. T. |date=March 9, 2009 |title=The Unfinished |url=http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/03/09/090309fa_fact_max?currentPage=all |magazine=[[The New Yorker]]}}</ref> and he spoke of opening a shelter for stray canines.<ref name="Unfin" /> According to his friend [[Jonathan Franzen]], he "had a predilection for dogs who'd been abused, and [were] unlikely to find other owners who were going to be patient enough for them".<ref name="RS" />

===Abuse allegations===

In the early 1990s, Wallace was in a relationship with writer [[Mary Karr]]. She later described Wallace as obsessive about her and said the relationship was volatile, with Wallace once throwing a coffee table at her as well as physically forcing her out of a car, leaving her to walk home.<ref name="artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com" /><ref name="nymag.com">{{Cite journal |last=Hughes |first=Evan |date=October 9, 2011 |title=Just Kids Jeffrey Eugenides insists his new novel is not a roman à clef |url=http://nymag.com/arts/books/features/jeffrey-eugenides-2011-10/ |journal=[[New York (magazine)|New York]]}}</ref> In 2018, she alleged that Wallace's biographer D.&nbsp;T. Max underreported Wallace's abuse. Of Max's account of their relationship, she tweeted: "That's about 2% of what happened." She said that Wallace kicked her, climbed up the side of her house at night, and followed her five-year-old son home from school.<ref>{{cite web|first=Kristian|last=Wilson|date=May 7, 2018|url=https://www.bustle.com/p/mary-karr-speaks-out-about-david-foster-wallace-amid-literatures-metoo-movement-9003387|title=Mary Karr Speaks Out About David Foster Wallace Amid Literature's #MeToo Movement|website=[[Bustle (magazine)|Bustle]]|accessdate=March 11, 2019}}</ref> Wallace also attempted to buy a gun to kill Karr's ex-husband.<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2018/05/15/mary-karr-tropic-squalor|title=Memoirist Mary Karr On God, #MeToo And Speaking Up About David Foster Wallace|date=May 15, 2018|website=www.wbur.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://x.com/marykarrlit/status/992735594060148737|title=x.com}}</ref> In a 2015 interview, Karr said, "I'm not the only woman he was violent with. It was—it's common knowledge among women who dated him, you know, that he was violent."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/2016/09/23/495161071/mary-karr-on-writing-memoirs-no-doubt-ive-gotten-a-million-things-wrong|title=Mary Karr On Writing Memoirs: 'No Doubt I've Gotten A Million Things Wrong'|website=NPR|date=September 23, 2016}}</ref> In the wake of the #MeToo movement and her own public statements, Karr said several women, including his former students, contacted her to share their stories of Wallace's physical and emotional abuse.<ref name="auto"/>