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Donald Richard "Don" DeLillo (born November 20, 1936) is an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, screenwriter and essayist. His works have covered subjects as diverse as television, nuclear war, the complexities of language, art, the advent of the Digital Age, mathematics, politics, economics, and sports.
Don DeLillo (born November 20, 1936, New York, New York, U.S.) is an American novelist whose postmodernist works portray the anomie of an America cosseted by material excess and stupefied by empty mass culture and politics.
Donald Richard DeLillo is an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, screenwriter and essayist. His works have covered subjects as diverse as television, nuclear war, the complexities of language, art, the advent of the Digital Age, mathematics, politics, economics, and sports.
Why Don DeLillo is America's greatest living writer. The writer that inspired Netflix's latest hit White Noise is a dazzling chronicler of modern America, and one of the country's legendary ...
Oct 12, 2020 · For nearly 50 years and across 17 novels, among them classics like “White Noise,” “Libra” and “Underworld,” DeLillo, who is 83, has summoned the darker currents of the American experience with...
May 22, 2024 · The Essential Don DeLillo. His fascination with terrorism, cults and mass culture’s weirder turns has given his work a prophetic air. Here’s where to start. Photo by Sara Barrett. 105. By...
Apr 29, 2016 · The 79-year-old DeLillo is the author of 18 novels, including the National Book Award-winning “White Noise” and the acclaimed bestsellers “Underworld” and “Libra.”
Major works: The Names • White Noise • Libra • Mao II • Underworld. “Like Dostoyevsky, Don DeLillo probes deeply into the sociopolitical and moral life of his country. Over a long and important career, he has inspired his readers with the diversity of his themes and the virtuosity of his prose.”—James H. Billington, Librarian of ...
Oct 3, 1997 · Don DeLillo is a first-rate modern writer: his clipped and adamantine use of words, his compacted sentences and digitalized detail, all come together to tell his stories in a taut and invigorating manner—and he can dissect the quirks and pathologies that are running through our culture, probe the leavenings that have adumbrated modern ...
Don DeLillo was shortlisted for The Man Booker International Prize in 2007. American novelist, short story writer, playwright, screenwriter and essayist.