Jason Kottke called the recent _Rolling Stone_ “profile”:http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/23638511/the_lost_years__last_days_of_david_foster_wallace/print of David Foster Wallace “as close to a biography of David Foster Wallace as you’ll get,” and I think that’s exactly right.
Since that post nearly two weeks ago, I had a transatlantic flight and the article was not online in full, so I bought the issue of _Rolling Stone_ at the airport. Not only is the article, by David Lipsky, the closest thing to a biography we will get (until we get one), but it’s so thorough that it’s difficult to imagine what additional substance a book-length version of same would provide.
According to “Jason,”:http://www.kottke.org/08/10/the-lost-years-and-last-days-of-david-foster-wallace _RS_ just made the full version available online; do yourself a favor and check it out.