What does "non-commercial writer" mean? It seems so amorphous as to be anything. > James Foster Wallace committed suicide David Foster Wallace, and he was cer

What does "non-commercial writer" mean? It seems so amorphous as to be anything. > James Foster Wallace committed suicide David Foster Wallace, and he was certainly a commercial writer. He's actually pretty famous for his commercial writing about tennis in particular. > JD Salinger He went into exile because his debut novel was so fabulously successful that he couldn't take the pressure of a follow-up. This seems like he'd be the very definition of a commercial writer, that his debut novel is extremely commercially successful.