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Quotes Books Biography Comments. Biography of Don Delillo Donald Richard DeLillo born November 20, is an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, screenwriter and essayist. His works have covered subjects as diverse as television, nuclear war, sports, the complexities of language, performance art, the Cold War, mathematics, the advent of the digital age, politics, economics, and global terrorism.

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DeLillo was already a well-regarded cult writer in , when the publication of White Noise brought him widespread recognition and won him the National Book Award for fiction. White Noise was followed in by Libra, a bestseller. DeLillo had described his fiction as concerned with "living in dangerous times", and in a interview he said that writers "must oppose systems.

It's important to write against power, corporations, the state, and the whole system of consumption and of debilitating entertainments I think writers, by nature, must oppose things, oppose whatever power tries to impose on us. Reflecting on his childhood in The Bronx, DeLillo said he was "always out in the street. As a little boy I whiled away most of my time pretending to be a baseball announcer on the radio.

I could think up games for hours at a time.