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Don DeLillo


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

Genre
Fiction

Influences
William Gaddis, Franz Kafka, James Ballard, Thomas Pynchon, James Joyc ...more


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 ...more

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Average rating: 3.66 · 305,834 ratings · 27,373 reviews · 94 distinct works • Similar authors
White Noise
3.86 avg rating — 121,903 ratings — published 1985 — 157 editions
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Underworld
3.95 avg rating — 32,712 ratings — published 1997 — 134 editions
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Libra
4.04 avg rating — 19,198 ratings — published 1988 — 6 editions
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Cosmopolis
3.26 avg rating — 18,180 ratings — published 2003 — 7 editions
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Falling Man
3.26 avg rating — 16,944 ratings — published 2007 — 91 editions
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Mao II
3.69 avg rating — 12,625 ratings — published 1991 — 77 editions
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The Body Artist
3.28 avg rating — 11,939 ratings — published 2001 — 96 editions
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Zero K
3.20 avg rating — 12,077 ratings — published 2016 — 68 editions
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The Silence
2.66 avg rating — 14,134 ratings — published 2020 — 56 editions
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Point Omega
3.45 avg rating — 9,809 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions
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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
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“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
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“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
tags: ghoul, liberation, novel
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Polls

July 2023 New School Classic Group Read

 
  57 votes, 21.9%

 
  50 votes, 19.2%

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, 1924, 226 pages
 
  47 votes, 18.1%

True Grit by Charles Portis, 1968, 224 pages
 
  47 votes, 18.1%

White Noise by Don DeLillo, 1985, 310 pages
 
  32 votes, 12.3%

On the Beach Nevil Shute, 1957, 296 pages
 
  27 votes, 10.4%

260 total votes
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