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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 consumerism, nuclear war, the complexities of language, art, television, the advent of the Digital Age, mathematics, politics, economics and sports.
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Born 20 November 1936 · Q310048
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and it was just lying around for months . . . a wedding in Seoul in a soft-drink warehouse, about 13,000 people. And when I looked at it again, I realized I wanted to understand this event, and the only way to understand it was to write about it. For me, writing is a concentrated form of thinking.
She needs to know that people out there believe in all the old verities, the old gods. These things keep the planet warm. But she herself is not a believer. I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood. For a Catholic, nothing is too important to discuss or think about, because he
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“and it was just lying around for months . . . a wedding in Seoul in a soft-drink warehouse, about 13,000 people. And when I looked at it again, I realized I wanted to understand this event, and the only way to understand it was to write about it. For me, writing is a concentrated form of thinking.”
“She needs to know that people out there believe in all the old verities, the old gods. These things keep the planet warm. But she herself is not a believer. I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood. For a Catholic, nothing is too important to discuss or think about, because he”
“And I think that some of the darkness in my work is a direct result of the confusion and psychic chaos and the sense of randomness that ensued from that moment in Dallas. It”
“When I received news of this award, my first thoughts were of my mother and father, who came to this country the hard way, as young people confronting a new language and culture. In a significant sense, the Library of Congress Prize is the culmination of their efforts and a tribute to their memory.”
“Stories have no point if they don't absorb our terror.”
“Remember literature, Charlie? It involved getting drunk and getting laid.”
“There's a curious knot that binds novelists and terrorists...Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory. They make raids on human consciousness. What writers used to do before we were all incorporated.”
“I try to stay detached from that aspect of my work as a writer. I didn”
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“I ran out of space and also felt, as one does at a certain age, that I was running out of time. I didn”
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“If a longer novel announces itself, I”
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“What I was really getting at in Running Dog was a sense of the terrible acquisitiveness in which we live coupled with a final indifference to the object. After all the mad attempts to acquire the thing, everyone suddenly decides that, well, maybe we really don”
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“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. There were eleven of us in a small house, but the close quarters were never a problem. I didn”
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“European and Asian cinemas of the 1960s shaped the way I think and feel about things. At that time I was living in New York, I didn”
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The Guardian: ‘Don DeLillo gave me his blessing’: film director Ben Rivers on how fan mail from the Underworld author led to his latest work
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The Guardian: Don DeLillo on Trump's America: 'I'm not sure the country is recoverable'
The Guardian: Avignon festival review – shock, awe and 10 hours of Don DeLillo
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The Guardian: Don DeLillo's White Noise to be adapted for film
New Republic: Don DeLillo isn’t on Twitter and will never be on Twitter.
– Norman Mailer Prize for Lifetime Achievement
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Awarded Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction (2013).
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It was announced that DeLillo had received the inaugural Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction (formerly the Library of Congress Creative Achievement Award for Fiction), with the presentation of the award due to
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Variety announced that Luca Guadagnino would direct an adaptation of The Body Artist called Body Art
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On the campus of the University of Illinois at Chicago
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Awarded Carl Sandburg Literary Award (2012).
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Became the first direct adaptation for the screen of a DeLillo novel, although both Libra and Underworld had previously been optioned for screen treatments
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– The New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2011 list for The Angel Esmeralda
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(previous recipients include Salman Rushdie, E
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“made me wonder whether I would be capable of that kind of writing now—the range and scope of it. There are certain parts of the book where the exuberance, the extravagance, I don”
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"In the 1970s, when I started writing novels, I was a figure in the margins, and that's where I belonged
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Over ten years after its publication, DeLillo said that rereading it "made me wonder whether I would be capable of that kind of writing now—the range and scope of it
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Entertainment Weekly announced that David Cronenberg would adapt Cosmopolis for the screen, with "a view to eventually direct
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Remarked: "When I finished with Underworld, I didn't really have any all-too-great hopes, to be honest
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The New York Times Book Review sent out at a query asking for the "single best work of American fiction published in the last 25 years
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DeLillo said "White Noise" was a fine choice, adding, "Once a title is affixed to a book, it becomes as indelible as a sentence or a paragraph
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"November 22nd, 1963, marked the real beginning of the 1960s
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How he felt about the novel's mixed reception compared to the broader positive consensus afforded to Underworld, DeLillo remarked: "I try to stay detached from that aspect of my work as a writer
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By the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin, reputedly for "half a million dollars"
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When he came up with the idea for the novel, beginning work on it following the reelection of George W
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KCRW: Don DeLillo: The Body Artist
Won William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2000).
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Awarded Jerusalem Prize (1999).
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“A History of the Writer Alone in a Room”
Awarded American Book Awards (1998).
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At the New York Public Library's event "Stand In for Wei Jingsheng
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And a second Pulitzer Prize for Fiction nomination in 1998
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On his relatively late start in writing novels, DeLillo said, "I wish I had started earlier, but evidently I wasn't ready
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“I wish I had started earlier, but evidently I wasn”
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Awarded PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for Mao II (1992).
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Published the folio short story "Pafko at the Wall" in Harper's Magazine
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With Libra, a novel about the assassination of John F
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Awarded National Book Award for Fiction for White Noise (1985).
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When the publication of White Noise brought him widespread recognition and the National Book Award for fiction
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“Human Moments in World War III”
“American Blood: A Journey through the Labyrinth of Dallas and JFK”
DeLillo finally broke his self-imposed ban on media coverage by giving his first major interview to Tom LeClair, who had first tracked DeLillo down for an interview while he was in Greece in 1979
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DeLillo was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship, which he used to fund a trip around the Middle East before settling in Greece, where he wrote his next novels, Amazons and The Names
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DeLillo married Bennett, a former banker turned landscape designer, in 1975; the couple do not have any children.
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“In the Men's Room of the Sixteenth Century”
“I did some short stories at that time but very infrequently. I quit my job just to quit. I didn”
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Moved into a modest apartment near the Queens–Midtown Tunnel ("It wasn't Paris in the 1920s, but I was happy"), and began work on his first novel
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And from Fordham University with a bachelor's degree in communication arts in 1958, DeLillo took a job in advertising because he could not get one in publishing
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Born 1936-11-20.
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In New York City and grew up in a Catholic family, with ties to Molise, Italy, in an Italian-American neighborhood of the Bronx not far from Arthur Avenue
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When I received news of this award, my first thoughts were of my mother and father, who came to this country the hard way, as young people confronting a new language and culture. In a significant sense, the Library of Congress Prize is the culmination of their efforts and a tribute to their memory.
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