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Don DeLillo
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American novelist, playwright and essayist (born 1936)
Don DeLillo is an American novelist, playwright, and essayist born in 1936 who is widely recognized as one of the most significant literary figures of the late 20th and 21st centuries. His work is known for exploring themes of American culture, technology, consumerism, and violence through complex narratives that have influenced contemporary literature and continue to attract critical attention.
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- Born
- 1936
- Works
- 46
Top works
- Omanit ha-guf
- Tat ʻolam
- White Noise
- En Las Ruinas Del Futuro (Panorma)
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New York City, New York, USA
Donald Richard 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. DeLillo was already a well-regarded cult writer in 1985, when the publication of…
Known for
- Never Seen Volcanoes — Self (voice, archive footage)2024
- Nelson Algren Live — Max2016
- Don DeLillo: The Word, The Image, and The Gun — Narrator1991
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Richard
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- The Bronx
- Occupation
- journalist
- Educated at
- Fordham University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Notable work
- Libra
- Field of work
- performing arts
- Image
- Don delillo nyc 02.jpg
- Residence
- Athens
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- Don DeLillo
- date of birth
- 1936-11-20
- member of
- PEN America
- influenced by
- J. G. Ballard
- start of work period
- 1960-00-00
- archives at
- Harry Ransom Center
- writing language
- English language
- P12674
- August Meyszner
- birth name
- Donald Richard DeLillo
- name in native language
- Don DeLillo
- pseudonym
- Cleo Birdwell
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Encyclopedic overview
Donald Richard DeLillo (born November 20, 1936) is an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, screenwriter and essayist. His works have covered subjects as diverse as consumerism, nuclear war, the complexities of language, art, television, the advent of the Digital Age, mathematics, politics, economics and sports.
DeLillo was already a well-regarded cult writer in 1985 when the publication of White Noise brought him widespread recognition and the National Book Award for fiction. He followed this in 1988 with Libra, a novel about the assassination of John F. Kennedy. DeLillo won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Mao II, about terrorism and the media's scrutiny of writers' private lives, and the William Dean Howells Medal for Underworld, a historical novel that ranges in time from the dawn of the Cold War to the birth of the Internet. He was awarded the 1999 Jerusalem Prize, the 2010 PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction, and the 2013 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction.
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