Editing David Foster Wallace (section)

==Death==
Wallace's father said that David had suffered from [[major depressive disorder]] for more than 20 years and that [[antidepressant]] medication had allowed him to be productive.<ref name="NYT1" /> Wallace suffered what was believed to be a severe interaction of the medication with the food he had eaten one day at a restaurant;<ref name="RS" /><ref>{{Cite magazine|last=Max|first=D.T.|date=2009-02-28|title=David Foster Wallace's Struggle to Surpass "Infinite Jest"|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/03/09/the-unfinished|access-date=2021-07-21|magazine=The New Yorker|language=en-US}}</ref> in June 2007, on his doctor's advice, Wallace stopped taking [[phenelzine]], his primary antidepressant drug.<ref name="NYT1" /> His depression recurred, and he tried other treatments, including [[electroconvulsive therapy]]. Eventually he went back on phenelzine but found it ineffective.<ref name="RS" /> On September 12, 2008, at age 46, Wallace wrote a private two-page suicide note to his wife, arranged part of the manuscript for ''[[The Pale King]]'', and hanged himself on the back porch of his house in Claremont, California.<ref name="Ghost Story" /><ref>{{Cite web |last= |date=2008-09-14 |title=Writer David Foster Wallace found dead |url=https://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-wallace14-2008sep14-story.html |access-date=2023-07-14 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}</ref>

Memorial gatherings were held at Pomona College,<ref name="LAT Pomona mourning" /> Amherst College, the University of Arizona, Illinois State University, and on October 23, 2008, at New York University (NYU). The [[Eulogy|eulogists]] at NYU included his sister, Amy Wallace-Havens; his literary agent, Bonnie Nadell; [[Gerry Howard]], editor of his first two books; [[Colin Harrison (writer)|Colin Harrison]], an editor at ''Harper's Magazine''; Michael Pietsch, editor of ''Infinite Jest'' and later works; Deborah Treisman, fiction editor at ''The New Yorker'' magazine; and the writers [[Don DeLillo]], [[Zadie Smith]], [[George Saunders]], Mark Costello, [[Donald Antrim]], and [[Jonathan Franzen]].<ref name="observ">{{Cite web |last=Begley |first=Adam |author-link=Adam Begley |date=October 27, 2008 |title=Jonathan Franzen Remembers David Foster Wallace |url=http://observer.com/2008/10/our-critics-tip-sheet-on-current-reading-jonathan-franzen-remembers-david-foster-wallace-mencken-disses-joe-sixpack/ |website=[[The New York Observer]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Celebrating the Life and Work of David Foster Wallace |url=http://fivedials.com/files/fivedials_no10.pdf |access-date=May 11, 2013 |website=[[Five Dials]] |publisher=[[Hamish Hamilton]] |archive-date=January 20, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130120184513/http://fivedials.com/files/fivedials_no10.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Konigsberg |first=Eric |date=October 24, 2008 |title=Remembering Writer of 'Infinite Jest' |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/24/books/24wallace.html?_r=0 |access-date=May 11, 2013}}</ref>