David foster family biography book
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A Guide to David Foster's Huge Extended Family
The Newlyweds
Katharine McPhee and David Foster wed in London on June 28, 2019, in an intimate evening ceremony, surrounded by friends and family.
It's the second marriage for McPhee and the fifth for Foster, who brings his wife into quite the large extended family. Here, get to know the ever-growing Foster family.
Allison Foster
Foster is a father of five and a grandfather of seven. He welcomed his first daughter Allison — here with him at a 2008 Heart Foundation event — when he was 20. He placed her for adoption, and reportedly reconnected with her later in life. She works for the David Foster Foundation and has two children.
Amy Foster
His second-oldest daughter, Amy — here with him at the 55th Annual BMI Pop Awards in 2007 in Beverly Hills — is a musician and mother of three; her mom is Foster's first wife, musician B.J. Cook. In 2019, Amy revealed she was diagnosed with breast cancer, but the "great
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The Story of
DAVID FOSTER
DAVID FOSTER
“I believe that everyone gets three rounds in their life,” says musician, songwriter, composer, arranger, producer, and recording artist David Foster. “For me, two are completed and I’m on to Round Three. I think you have to change it up every round. My mantra is retreat and attack in another direction, which I’ve done twice. Now I’m going to do it again.”
Foster’s first round was as a studio musician, arranger, and recording artist. His second round was becoming one of the most successful songwriters and record producers in history — shepherding albums that have collectively sold in the hundreds of millions. This period of his four-decade career also found him creating The David Foster Foundation and volunteering his time and talent to over 400 charities, as well as becoming a household name as a performer throughout Asia where he tours annually.
For his third round, Foster is gearing up to take on Broadway with several projects
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David Foster Wallace
American writer (1962–2008)
David Foster Wallace (February 21, 1962 – September 12, 2008) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and university professor of English and creative writing. Wallace's 1996 novel Infinite Jest was cited by Time magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005.[1] His posthumous novel, The Pale King (2011), was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2012. David Ulin of the Los Angeles Times called Wallace "one of the most influential and innovative writers of the last twenty years".[2]
Wallace grew up in Illinois and attended Amherst College and the University of Arizona in Tucson, where he earned his MFA. He taught English at Emerson College, Illinois State University, and Pomona College. After struggling with depression for many years,[3] he died by suicide in 2008, at age 46.
Early life and education
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