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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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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1936
- Works
- 46
Top works
- Omanit ha-guf
- Tat ʻolam
- White Noise
- En Las Ruinas Del Futuro (Panorma)
- Don DeLillo
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Writing · 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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- Listeners
- 554
- Total plays
- 13,563
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Don DeLillo (born November 20, 1936) is an American author whose work paints a detailed portrait of American life in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. He has published four plays and fifteen novels, among the best known of which are White Noise (1985), Libra (1988), Mao II (1991), Underworld (1997), and Falling Man (2007). White Noise won a National Book Award, and Underworld was the runner-up in a 2006 poll of major writers about the best books in the past half-century conducted by the Ne
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,796x
- Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010
· 2012 · cited 10,738x
- A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010
· 2012 · cited 9,222x
- The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Technical Summary
· 2000 · cited 8,823x
- Preliminary reference Earth model
· 1981 · cited 8,393x
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Quotes
- “I think fiction rescues history from its confusions.”
- “I'm a novelist, period. An American novelist.”
- “I am not particularly distressed by the state of fiction or the role of the writer. The more marginal, perhaps ultimately the more trenchant and observant and finally necessary he'll become.”
- “I think fiction comes from everything you've ever done, and said, and dreamed, and imagined. It comes from everything you've read and haven't read...I think my work comes out of the culture of the world around me. I think that's where my language comes from.”
- “Popular culture is inescapable in the U.S. Why not use it?”
- “The figure of the gunman in the window was inextricable from the victim and his history. This sustained Oswald in his cell. It gave him what he needed to live. The more time he spent in a cell, the stronger he would get. Everybody knew who he was now.”
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- Donald Richard DeLillo
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- Don DeLillo
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- Cleo Birdwell
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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.