Author of "Infinite Jest" Found Dead

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/books/14wallace.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

I was unfamiliar with the work of David Foster Wallace, professor of English at Pomona College who was apparently best known for the 1000 page novel "Infinite Jest."  I suppose comparing someone to Thomas Pynchon is intended to be complimentary, but I know I was never able to finish Gravity's Rainbow.  However, one reviewer refers to the overall effect as "something like a sleek Vonnegut chassis wrapped in layers of post-millennial Zola."  I'd be excited about that prospect if I knew anything about Zola.

The death appears to have been a suicide.  Anybody know more about the author, want to say a few words?