BBC copyrights ignored, because, as far as I am aware, bbc has never repeated, nor translated into another [sellble] format, this documentary, which, it seems to me, says a lot [albeit not. From: Whats all the fuss about? Question: Who is overrated? Jonathan Franzen: I always felt E.M. Forster was overrated frankly, to take an obvious example. Never really got it. When people go. Professor Geoff Ward discusses the life and works of David Foster Wallace When David Foster Wallace hanged himself in 2008, at the age of 46, he was considered by many to be the most gifted.