The Harry Ransom Center library and museum at the University of Texas, Austin, has acquired the archive of author David Foster Wallace, who committed suicide in 2008. The archive, which will be available to researchers in the fall, includes handwritten notes and drafts of Infinite Jest, as well as poems he wrote as a child, his personal library, and college writings.
The notes for the book the author was working on at the time of his death, The Pale King, will be kept by the publisher until the novel is published in 2011.
The New York Times reports:
There is also a copy of his dictionary, in which he circled words, and heavily annotated copies of books by Don DeLillo, Cormac McCarthy, John Updike and others. Mr. Wallace’s writing journal, which includes personal reflections, story ideas, names and plots, as well as articles on boredom, tax shelters and credit-card fraud are also included.