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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.
Jun 13, 2024 · Don DeLillo, American novelist whose postmodernist works portray the anomie of an America cosseted by material excess and stupefied by empty mass culture and politics. His notable books included White Noise (1985), Libra (1988), Underworld (1997), and Point Omega (2010).
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.
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...
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 ...
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.”
White Noise is the eighth novel by Don DeLillo, published by Viking Press in 1985. It won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. [1] White Noise is a cornerstone example of postmodern literature. It is widely considered DeLillo's breakout work and brought him to the attention of a much larger audience.
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 ...
Sep 15, 2010 · An Interview with Don DeLillo. By: Don DeLillo September 15, 2010. PEN: You received this year’s Saul Bellow award, PEN’s top honor for American fiction. Are you an admirer of Bellow’s work? DeLillo: I still have my old paperback copy of Herzog (Fawoett Crest, $0.95), a novel I recall reading with great pleasure.
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