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Don DeLillo


Born
in New York City, The United States
November 20, 1936

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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.
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 Kennedy assassination. 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
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Average rating: 3.65 · 288,994 ratings · 25,084 reviews · 95 distinct worksSimilar authors
White Noise

3.86 avg rating — 114,824 ratings — published 1985 — 148 editions
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Underworld

3.94 avg rating — 31,368 ratings — published 1997 — 121 editions
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Libra

4.03 avg rating — 17,706 ratings — published 1988 — 116 editions
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Cosmopolis

3.25 avg rating — 17,412 ratings — published 2003 — 115 editions
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Falling Man

3.26 avg rating — 16,391 ratings — published 2007 — 85 editions
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Mao II

3.69 avg rating — 11,906 ratings — published 1991 — 33 editions
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Zero K

3.20 avg rating — 11,601 ratings — published 2016 — 63 editions
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The Body Artist

3.28 avg rating — 11,266 ratings — published 2001 — 89 editions
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The Silence

2.66 avg rating — 12,759 ratings — published 2020 — 52 editions
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Point Omega

3.45 avg rating — 9,331 ratings — published 2010 — 61 editions
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Quotes by Don DeLillo  (?)
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“Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world.”
Don DeLillo, Conversations with Don Delillo

“How strange it is. We have these deep terrible lingering fears about ourselves and the people we love. Yet we walk around, talk to people, eat and drink. We manage to function. The feelings are deep and real. Shouldn't they paralyze us? How is it we can survive them, at least for a little while? We drive a car, we teach a class. How is it no one sees how deeply afraid we were, last night, this morning? Is it something we all hide from each other, by mutual consent? Or do we share the same secret without knowing it? Wear the same disguise?”
Don DeLillo, White Noise
tags: fear

“How I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature.”
Don DeLillo, The Names

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July 2022 New School Classic Poll

 
  77 votes, 34.4%

 
  43 votes, 19.2%

White Noise by Don DeLillo, 1985, 320 pages
 
  35 votes, 15.6%

 
  28 votes, 12.5%

So Big by Edna Ferber, 1924, 376 pages
 
  23 votes, 10.3%

The Man of Property by John Galsworthy, 1906, 364 pages
 
  18 votes, 8.0%

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