Reproduction - Used books

Found inscribed in a used book, that I brought some time back from the bylanes of Calcutta -

"To Partha,

Always remember

Love,

Papa"

!!Oh the irony!!

Authors I don't know

Periodically I read something and find out that there are so many authors that I just -

1. Don't know about
2. Have heard the name and the works but never sampled them.

This is a list which I think would be aggregating from now on to index my ignorance. Today's list

1. David Foster Wallace - Suicide death on Sep 12, 2008, apparently very famous for Infinite Jest. A remembrance posted on Slate can be found here. Target #1
2. James Joyce - I know about Ulysses, never read it, but now in Marshall McLuhan's book "Understanding media" I keep coming back to Finnegan's Wake. Target #2

May God grant me the humility to understand that I cannot read all such great people in my finite life. Let me know if you people know about them.

AMEN.

Update 1 - David Wallace's short story "Incarnations of burned children" can be found here