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      • Donald Richard "Don" DeLillo (born November 20, 1936) is an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, screenwriter and essayist.
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  2. DeLillo is often seen as a visionary, a prescient writer who saw what's coming, but really what he does is observe what was really always there, and focus on it. Let's take these five books and...

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    DeLillo has frequently reflected on the significance of the Kennedy assassination to not only his own work but American culture and history as a whole, remarking in 2005, "November 22nd, 1963, marked the real beginning of the 1960s.

  4. 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...

  5. Sep 3, 2024 · 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.

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  6. Sep 7, 1997 · It was a tentative start, but after a few years, once DeLillo got a handle on his novel and convinced himself that he was a real writer, he quit Ogilvy, Benson & Mather.

  7. Feb 20, 2023 · C ritics often describe author Don DeLillo as prescient. His novels from the 1970s and 1980s—the most famous one being White Noise —explore themes that feel highly contemporary: paranoia and technology, hyper-consumerism, and the impact of mass media on the American psyche.

  8. Feb 3, 2010 · Don DeLillo, whose new novel, “Point Omega,” came out on Tuesday, is not exactly a Pynchonesque recluse. He travels, sees friends, gives readings occasionally. People know what he looks like: a...